Before you ever shouted out “…Mickey Your So Fine” American singer-songwriter, actress, filmmaker, film director, choreographer, and dancer Antonia Christina Basilotta or as we know her, Toni Basil was just another art student/muse seen below in a 1966 groovy and stylized art piece by American artist Bruce Conner.
The five-minute Breakaway shows Antonia Christina Basilotta (Toni Basil) shimmy, tease, gyrate, and luxuriate in various states of undress. The music, Ed Cobb’s “Breakaway”, the B-side of Basilotta’s first single, is a throaty pop-tune with low-brow mid-’60s “lib” lyrics (“I’m gonna break away from all the chains that bind, and everyday I’ll wear what I want and do what suits me fine”), a cross between Nancy Sinatra and Martha and the Vandellas. The song lasts two minutes and 30 seconds, after which the entire short, picture and soundtrack, runs backwards to the beginning. -via sensesofcinema.com
Warp back and forth below!
Extra| “Breakaway”
