From German pioneers to light show psychedelia to experimental animation classics — rare films and preserved prints from the Center for Visual Music.
Rare Classics: Essential Visual Music All ages 80 minutes
Sun 4 May 3.00pm / Cinema A (Introduced by Cindy Keefer, Center for Visual Music)
R-1 ein Formspiel c.1926–1933
16MM, BLACK AND WHITE, TINTED AND COLOUR, MONO, 7 MINUTES, GERMANY / DIRECTOR: OSKAR FISCHINGER (SINGLE PANEL VERSION, RECREATED BY WILLIAM MORITZ AND FISCHINGER ARCHIVE) / SOUND ON CD
Tanz der Farben (Dance of the Colours) 1939
16MM, COLOUR, MONO, 6 MINUTES, GERMANY / DIRECTOR: HANS FISCHINGER
Dockum Mobilcolor Performance at the Guggenheim 1952
16MM, COLOUR, SILENT, 7 MINUTES, USA / DIRECTOR: CHARLES DOCKUM / MADE WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF TED NEMETH AND MARY ELLEN BUTE
Demonstration of Mobilcolor Projector 1966 and Performance Film 1966
16MM, COLOUR, MONO AND SILENT, 7 MINUTES, USA / DIRECTOR: CHARLES DOCKUM
Early Abstractions, Film No. 3 (Interwoven) 1949
16MM, COLOUR, MONO, 3:30 MINUTES, USA / DIRECTOR: HARRY SMITH
Muntz TV Commercial 1952
16MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 1 MINUTE, USA / DIRECTOR: OSKAR FISCHINGER
Mood Contrasts 1953
16MM, COLOUR, MONO, 7 MINUTES, USA / DIRECTOR: MARY ELLEN BUTE
Cibernetik 5.3 1960–65
DVD, COLOUR, STEREO, 7 MINUTES, USA / DIRECTOR: JOHN STEHURA
Turn, Turn, Turn 1966
16MM, COLOUR, MONO, 10 MINUTES, USA / DIRECTOR: JUD YALKUT / SOUND: USCO
Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show Film 1971
16MM, COLOUR, MONO, 5 MINUTES, USA / DIRECTORS: SINGLE WING TURQUOISE BIRD / FILM DOCUMENT OF LIGHT SHOW PERFORMANCE BY PETER MAYS, JEFFREY PERKINS, MICHAEL SCROGGINS, JON GREENE, LARRY JANSS AND ROL MURROW, INCLUDING FILM FOOTAGE
BY DAVID LEBRUN, PAT O’NEILL, AND JOHN STEHURA.
Tanka 1976
16MM, COLOUR, MONO, 9:30 MINUTES, USA / DIRECTOR: DAVID LEBRUN
Celebration 1978
16MM, COLOUR, MONO, 4 MINUTES, USA / DIRECTOR: JULES ENGEL
3 Arctic Flowers 1978
16MM, COLOUR, MONO, 3 MINUTES, USA / DIRECTOR: JULES ENGEL
Accident 1973
16MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 3 MINUTES, USA / DIRECTOR: JULES ENGEL
Program curated and provided by Cindy Keefer / Center for Visual Music. All films from the collection of CVM, many preserved with support from The National Film Preservation Foundation. Screening permissions courtesy of the Fischinger Archive, Cecile Starr and The Women’s Independent Film Exchange, Anthology Film Archives and the individual filmmakers and estates.
