K I N E T I C A 4
Abstraction / Animation / Music
December 2002-April 2003

K I N E T I C A 4, the fourth of The iotaCenter’s screening series, pays tribute to important
works of abstraction in film and video, in Two Programs:

Lapis

The Sixties: Spirituality and Psychedelia

Program One, “The Sixties” follows the tradition of spiritual visual music into the 1960s and 1970s. The filmmakers in these decades expanded their imagery with new technologies including optical printing, video, the computer, and the elaborate multi-projector light-show. Some of these films have not been seen for decades, and were newly preserved for K4.

Title List (16mm)

• Oskar/Elfriede Fischinger, Lumigraph film (1969)

• James Whitney, Haut Voltage (High Voltage) (1957)

• Pat O’Neill, 7362 (1967)

• Olvey & Brown, The Tempest (1967)

• Ed Emshwiller, Sunstone (1979)

• James Whitney, Lapis (1966)

• Jordan Belson & Stephen Beck, Cycles (1975)

• Stephen Beck, Union (1975)

• Scott Bartlett, OFFON (1968)

• Jules Engel, Rumble (1975)

• John Whitney, Permutations (1968)

• John Stehura, Cibernetik 5.3 (1965)

• The Single Wing Turquoise Bird film (1971)

Feuerhaus (Firehouse)

un albor (Dawn)

Don’t Stop

The Contemporary Program of Abstraction

In the contemporary program of KINETICA 4, more recent ‘visual music’ animation will be screened – on film and video, both computer-animated and otherwise, from the 70s up to the present.

Partial Title List (16mm and video)

• David Lebrun, Tanka (1976)

• Sky David, Merkaba (1973)

• Bart Vegter, Four Moves (1987)

• Robert Darroll, Stele (1999), video

• Ying Tan, un albor (Dawn), (1999), video

• Amy Alexander, Unbroken Pieces (1996), video

• Bill Alves, aleph (2002), video

• Jeremy Rendina, Seaweed (1999)

• Baerbel Neubauer, Feuerhaus (Firehouse) (1998)

• Anna Geyer, Arapadaptor (I Feel So), (2002)

• Stephanie Maxwell, Please Don’t Stop (1988)

• Celia Mercer, Fossils (1999)

• Secret Sauce, Whisper (1996), video

• Paul Glabicki, Full Moon Segment 2 (2001), video

 

Venues

Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Anthology Film Archives, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge MA
Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Miami Valley Cooperative Gallery, “Millenium Project” Dayton, OH
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle WA

The films of John and James Whitney, Pat O’Neill, John Stehura and Jules Engel were preserved by The iotaCenter with grants from The National Film Preservation Foundation. Thanks to the NFPF for their ongoing support of our preservation activities which made the presentation of many of these films possible. OFFON was preserved by Pacific Film Archive with a grant from the NFPF.

KINETICA 4 was curated by Dr. William Moritz and produced by Cindy Keefer. This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support was received from The California Arts Council and The Getty Grant Program.

Photos courtesy: The Estate of John and James Whitney, Jules Engel, Pat O’Neill, Baerbel Neubauer, Stephanie Maxwell, Ying Tan, Secret Sauce