Unit 05: Clips referencing time
William Kentridge
Un Homme Qui Dort
The Man Who Sleeps – Bernard Queysanne
Christian Marclay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp4EUryS6ac
Time in terms of “timing” of sound an image (abstraction)
1935-1937 Len Lye – “Kaleidoscope”
A Colour Box – hand painted film
https://archive.org/details/A_Colour_Box
Trade Tattoo
An Optical Poem – produced by Oskar Fischinger 1938
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=they7m6YePo
John Whitney
Walter Ruttmann – Lichtspiel Opus 1,2,3,4 -The first abstract film screened publicly – 27 April 1921
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od0MxuD4xxQ
Symphonie Diagonale Viking Eggeling
Hans Richter – Rhythm.21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEgULqLn5iU
“Ballet mecanique” (1924)
Time as in sequencing (complex sequencing / Spacial relationships)
Maya Deren – ritual in transfigured time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IG5K65gkTU
(should be watched with no sound)
“Meshes of the Afternoon” (1943) Short Film
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5412965/meshes_of_the_afternoon_1943_short_film_public_domain/
Witch’s cradle (Maya Deren , M. Duchamp – 1943)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9z6_DA-tqU
Corti surrealisti Man Ray Fernand Leger & Marcel Duchamp, 1923 1929
Early animation + Linking image with sound
Silly Symphony (was the beginning of animation/ disney + where they were able to link up the image with the sound for the first time)
Gertie the Dinosaur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGXC8gXOPoU
First Silent FilmThe Lumiere Brothers – “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat” – First silent documentary film – (1896)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d_9N68MO9gM
Timing based on Actor in a Scene
Harold Lloyd’s “Safety Last”- 1923
Films That Rely on timing but are empty
Structuralist film
Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
Andy Warhol’s Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMCeDBn1Zu0
Warhol eating a burger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejr9KBQzQPM
Contemporary Artists video:
David Lynch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQzCFXoGoc
Bill Viola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7a8R8Oynj4&list=PLA228CFF516FAD624
Nam June Paik
Ann Hamilton
http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/videosound/aleph_video.html