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Coloured pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master image is formed, this continuously throbbing, pulsating sight is used to ring changes based on years of optical work. Music (by Carl Stone) and picture work together to create a mood of ecstatic tranquility. (Adam Beckett)
Also in this combined programme
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Eclipse Predictions
Diana Wilson’s beautiful animated tableaux reach their zenith in this film, creating a moving visual catharsis for a childhood tragedy. -
Throbs
Fred Worden’s earliest extant film is a moving, celebratory collage of epiphanous moments constructed on an optical printer with an unusual grace and -
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This dense and haunting 3-minute epic, rediscovered to great curiosity and acclaim, is the only film completed and released by Bruce Lane. -
Bertha’s Children
Five middle-aged siblings and their simple behaviours and declarations are intensely ordered and analyzed, rendering a powerfully unusual family film -
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The Divine Miracle
Hyper-stylized imagery of Christ is composited with powerfully weird optical printing work, in this classic vision which took two solid years to produ -
Venice Pier
A breathtaking and achingly humble film in which a year’s worth of non-chronological imagery shot down the entire length of Venice Pier is presented, -
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A documentary revolutionary in its unconventionality, which, as a result, captures more about its subject (rock ‘n roll), and more vividly and emotion -
Death of the Gorilla
Peter Mays achieved these hypnotically dense and hallucinatory in-camera super-impositions shooting off the TV with colour filters, then edited the ma
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1973
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
