K I N E T I C A 1 August 14, 1999

Selections from the iotaCenter Media Collection

Dr William Moriz, noted authority on experimental animation and visual music will introduce a selection of 16mm and 35mm films from The iotaCenter’s collection.

Come Closer

3/78

The Program:

• In the Night Walther Ruttman
• Furies Sara Petty
• Film #11 Harry Smith
• Come Closer Hy Hirsh
• Free Radicals Len Lye
• Celery Stalks at Midnight John Whitney, Sr.
• Stars and Stripes Norman McLaren
• Silence Jules Engel
• 3/78 Larry Cuba
• Beethoven Machinery David Brody
• Impressions in the Upper Atmosphere José Antonio Sistiaga
• Algorithm Bärbel Neubauer
• Bubbles Karel Dodal
• Study #6 Oskar Fischinger

High Voltage

Plus:
-A hand colored film record from 1903 of a dance by visual music artist, Loïe Fuller, the darling of Paris’ Folies-Bergére
-A film record of Charles Dockum performing live on the visual music instrument he invented in 1939, the Dockum Mobilcolor Projector
-From the legendary Vortex Concerts, held in San Francisco’s Morrison Planetarium in the 1950s, two films: High Voltage by James Whitney and Allures by Jordan Belson
-A rare presentation in 35mm of Oskar Fischinger’s tour de force from 1937, Optical Poem

Laemmle Theatre:
Monica 4-plex
1332 2nd Street
Santa Monica, CA