This film presents a series of flickering frames of primary colors to groaning tape manipulations. ‘Though I have worked extensively in various media, from music to poetry to film to performance to multimedia and installation art, there is a single thread that runs through most of my creative work: I am fascinated by the potential of light and sound to produce sheer magic.’ (V. Grauer)
Also in this combined programme
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New Ratio
An exploration of the move from the 4:3 screen ratio to 16:9, now the standard for broadcast television. A hypnotic and sensory exploration of the… -
The Flicker
By implicating the retina rather than sight, this film displaces the centres of reception from the sensorial to the neural. -
Ray Gun Virus
This is a work in which no images appear yet one can get pure identity on film. The projected film itself makes the viewer aware… -
Arnulf Rainer
This is a film composed entirely of solid black and solid white frames, strung together in lengths as long as 24 frames and as short… -
The Flicker Film
Famous animator McLaren’s most abstract film, The Flicker Film, is marginalized to the point of being officially labelled as “unfinished” and thus ‘un
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1966
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 9'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
