MAX (1967)

Phill Niblock and Dave Gearey w/ music by Max Neuhaus

OK TO GO (2008)

"Chain of Hyper Space scenes from films (a collaboration with Mike Merrill).

Part of the thing which is so appealing about Hyper Space scenes in films is the idea that something fantastic and unknown lies at the end of them. In fact, here are the primary uses of Warp Speed/ Hyper Space as plot device:
A) Tunnel to unknown.
B) Escape from danger via total oblivion.

Both represent a kind of inversion, or temporary lifting, of the accepted order."

by Claire L. Evans and Mike Merrill

via Rhizome

FREE RADICALS (1958)

While Len Lye may be most well known for his color films, this simple study in movement of lines is just as impressive.

ERKKI KURENNIEMI

Electronics in the World of Tomorrow (1968)


Computer Music (date unknown)


"Erkki Kurenniemi (born 1941) is a Finnish electronic musician, composer and inventor of electronic instruments, such as the DIMI series and the Electric Quartet."

LARRY JORDAN

TWO FILMS:

Our Lady of the Sphere (1969)



Rime of the Ancient Mariner with Orson Welles (1977)

LILLIAN SCHWARTZ

Lillian Schwartz - The Artist and the Computer (1976)
a documentary on the art of lillian schwartz (in two parts)




Pixillation (1970)

ARABESQUE (1975)

John Whitney and Larry Cuba, 1975

FILM STRIP SERIES ITEM # 1

John Whitney, animations used for Arabesque 1975

JULES ENGEL

exerpts via iota center

Train Landscape (1974)



Silence (1968)



Swan (1975)



Toy Shop (1998)



Villa Rospigliosi (1988)



""I have concentrated, with particular emphasis, upon the development of a visually inspired, dynamic language, demonstrating that pure graphic choreography is capable of non-verbal truth."

OFF ON (1967)

"seminal videographic film made by San Francisco based film maker Scott Bartlett with assistance from Tom Dewitt, Manny Meyer, and Michael McNamee in 1967."

POEME ELECTRONIQUE (1958)

Varese, Xenakis, Le Corbusier

"Poème électronique is the first, electronic-spatial environment to combine architecture, film, light and music to a total experience made to function in time and space."

SCREENING ROOM

"Screening Room was a 1970s Boston television series that for almost ten years offered independent filmmakers a chance to show and discuss their work on a commercial (ABC-TV) affiliate station. The series was developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner (Dead Birds, Forest of Bliss), who was Chairman of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard for many years.

This unique program dealt even-handedly with animation, documentary, and experimental film, welcoming such artists as Jan Lenica, John and Faith Hubley, Emile DeAntonio, Jean Rouch, Ricky Leacock, Jonas Mekas, Bruce Baillie, Yvonne Rainer and Michael Snow. Frequently, guests such as Octavio Paz, Stanley Cavell, and Rudolph Arnheim appeared as well. Many of the filmmakers presented on the show are now considered the most influential contributors to their respective fields of modern experimental film, documentary, and animation."

CAROLINE LEAF and MARY BEAMS:



The piece mentioned at the end of the clip is The Owl Who Married a Goose: an Eskimo Legend (1974)

SPACE SONATA (1981)

Bulat Galeyev
with electronic music by Alexandr Nemtin & Stanialav Kreichi
1981, 8:59 min, color, sound

via Rhizome

SCIENCE IS FICTION

"The mesmerizing, utterly unclassifiable science films of Jean Painlevé (1902-89) have to be seen to be believed: delightful, surrealist-influenced dream works that are also serious science. The French filmmaker-scientist-inventor had a decades-spanning career in which he created hundreds of short films on subjects ranging from astronomy to pigeons to, most famously, such marine-life marvels as the sea horse and the sea urchin. This definitive three-disc collection brings together the best of these, and also includes the French television series Jean Painlevé Through His Films, indie rock band Yo La Tengo’s eight-film score The Sounds of Science, and an essay by film scholar Scott MacDonald."

due out 21 Apr 2009 via CRITERION

too bad there aren't any clips floating around of the yo la tengo scored Sounds of Science... I was able to find this though:

Jean Painleve - "Le vampire"
by arginati22

SYNCHROMY (1971)

"To make this film, Norman McLaren employed novel optical techniques to compose the piano rhythms of the sound track. These he then moved, in multicolor, onto the picture area of the screen so that, in effect, you see what you hear. It is synchronization of image and sound in the truest sense of the word."

1971, 07 min 27 s