Kinetica™ 3

August 2001-June 2003

the third of The iotaCenter’s screening series, pays tribute to Hy Hirsh and important works of abstraction in film and video, in Two Programs:

Chasse des Touches

Eneri

Yantra

Hy Hirsh and The 50s: Jazz and Abstraction in Beat Era Film

Newly preserved prints of the rarely seen films of Hy Hirsh are featured in this look at abstraction in the 50s. The program also includes films by Hirsh’s contemporaries including Jordan Belson, Harry Smith, Patricia Marx and also John and James Whitney and Mary Ellen Bute. Abstract Expressionism, Jazz, Zen and Beat culture all come together in these abstract films of the 50s.

• Robert Breer, A Man and His Dog Out for Air (1957)
• Hy Hirsh, Chasse des Touches (1959)
• Jordan Belson, Caravan (1952)
• Jordan Belson, Mandala (1953)
• Hy Hirsh, Eneri (1953)
• Patricia Marx, Things to Come (1953)
• Hy Hirsh, Autumn Spectrum (1957)
• Shirley Clarke, Bridges Go Round (1958)
• Mary Ellen Bute, Mood Contrasts (1956)
• Harry Smith, Film #3 (1949)
• Hy Hirsh, Scratch Pad (1961)
• John Whitney, Sr., Catalog (1961)
• James Whitney, Yantra (1957)
• Hy Hirsh, Defense d’Afficher (1958)
• Hy Hirsh, La Couleur de la Forme (1961)

Object Conversation

Calculated Movements

Jordan Belson’s “Bardo” and the Contemporary Program

In the contemporary program of KINETICA™ 3, more recent ‘visual music’ animation will be screened – both computer-animated and otherwise, on film and on video, from the 70s up to the present. This program features the world premiere of “Bardo,” a new work by Jordan Belson. Program 2 also includes work by Sky David, Joost Rekveld, Richard Reeves, Tan Ying, Paul Glabicki, Bob Snyder, Chris Casady and Larry Cuba as well as other contemporary artists.

• Chris Casady, Pencil Dance (1988)screened on video
• Ed Zajec, Orphics 6.1 (1997)video
• Paul GlabickiObject Conversation (1985)
• Richard Reeves, Linear Dreams (1997)
• Larry Cuba, Calculated Movements (1985)
• Joost Rekveld, IFSfilm (1991)
• Al Jarnow. Cubits (1978)
• Mar Elepano, Winter (1984)
• Ernie Pintoff/Mel Brooks, The Critic (1963) screened on video
• Bob Snyder, ICRON (1978) video
• Ying Tan, Elements in Transformation #1 and #2 (1998) video
• Stephen Arthur, Transfigured (1998) video
• Sky David, Luma Nocturna (1974)
• Jordan Belson, Bardo (2001) video

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Venues

University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
San Francisco Cinematheque, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA
Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
The Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA
Technoimage Festival, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Anthology Film Archives, New York
Alternative Film Festival, Edinboro University, PA
Cleveland Cinematheque, Cleveland, OH
Centre Pompidou, Paris