"Gene Kelly seduces Leslie Caron through choreography and movement, the moment of surrender is perfectly captured as the characters emerge from orange smoke during the musical finale," says video artist Marco Brambilla of the pivotal moment in the classic musical An American in Paris. "The simplicity of this scene had such a strong visceral impact on me when I first saw the film."

Brambilla repurposes the well-known scene borrowed from the 1951 film, adding an "analog layer of abstraction" with the help of a chemical process that obscures the crisp imagery of the original film stock.

Part of his Celluloid series, which pays tribute to the golden age of cinema by reworking recognizable clips from the Hollywood canon, Brambilla's take on An American in Paris is rather appropriately set to the French composer Erik Satie's “Gnossienne No.3.”