whilecinemavisionsdancedinmyhead: Rien que les heures...

whilecinemavisionsdancedinmyhead:

Rien que les heures (1926)
Early work by Cavalcanti, a Paris city symphony pre Vertov or Ruttmann. Watch it here: http://ift.tt/1Eh5cCg

Merci

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orphanwork: Photographie expérimentale, Prise de vue sans...

orphanwork:

Photographie expérimentale, Prise de vue sans caméra, vers 1960-1970

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Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas

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Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Schaeffer

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Necrology1971 / 11 min / Mono Directed by Standish LawderMusic...

Necrology
1971 / 11 min / Mono

Directed by Standish Lawder

Music by Jean Sibelius

Rush hour commuters were filmed riding an escalator down into New York’s Grand Central Station. The footage was then reversed and paired with a haunting piece by Sibelius to suggest an endless line of souls slowly ascending to heaven.

It’s surprisingly captivating for such a simple idea, but people watching is always interesting to me. This film is also a great time capsule of late ’60s fashions. Stick around for the end credits, which are a nice added touch. A necrology is a list of the dead, and Lawder assigns made-up names and roles to all of “the cast.”

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Experimental Cinema: A Fifty-year Evolution (1971) by David...

Experimental Cinema: A Fifty-year Evolution (1971) by David Curtis

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shadowandardentaquarium: Jonas Mekas, 1947, Kassel

shadowandardentaquarium:

Jonas Mekas, 1947, Kassel

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Norman McLaren, drawing directly on film

Norman McLaren, drawing directly on film

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The cover of the first English translation of A la Recherche...

The cover of the first English translation of A la Recherche d’une Musique Concrète (1952), published by University of California Press, Berkeley, November 2012. The book is in the form of a sound diary written between 1948 and 1952. Excerpt:

March 1948: Back in Paris I have started to collect objects. I have a “Symphony of noises” in mind; after all, there has been a symphony of psalms. I go to the sound effects department of the French radio service. I find clappers, coconut shells, klaxons, bicycle horns. I imagine a scale of bicycle horns. There are gongs and birdcalls. It is charming that an administrative system should be concerned with birdcalls and should regularize their acquisition on an official form, duly recorded.



I take away doorbells, a set of bells, an alarm clock, two rattles, two childishly painted whirligigs. The clerk causes some difficulties. Usually, he is asked for a particular item. There are no sound effects without a text in parallel, are there? But what about the person who wants noise without text or context?

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Carol Janeway-Maya Deren

Carol Janeway-Maya Deren

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