Final exam study guide
Evaluations
Experimenting with the Materiality of the Film Medium
abstraction: pure “form” liberated from “content” >> the materiality of the form’s medium comes to the foreground
Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
Free Radicals (Len Lye, 1958/1979)
Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
Source material:
Hallucination, Illusion, Perceptual Modulation
“materiality” here comes to mean the materiality of the viewer’s perceiving body
The Flicker (Tony Conrad, 1965)
Anemic Cinema (Marcel Duchamp, 1926)
Rotoreliefs: two-dimensional discs that create an illusion of depth
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (Paul Sharits, 1968)
Experimental sound-image relations and “visual music”
Color organs:
Wassily Kandinsky, “Composition VIII” (1923)
An Optical Poem (Oskar Fischinger, 1938)
Synchromy (Norman McLaren, 1971)
Humanities 1460 - Film as an Art 