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Artist's Profile: Harry Smith Moritz, WilliamHarry Smith was raised in Washington by parents with an interest in alchemy and occultism. In college, he worked for an anthropologist and lived for a period with a Native American tribe. Around 1945, he moved to San Francisco and became part of a circle of avant-garde artists. In addition to producing more than a dozen films, Smith was a painter, anthropologist, alchemist, and music archivist. His three-volume record collection FOLK- WAYS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC was an important in- fluence on such musicians as Bob Dylan and Jerry Garcia. Selected Filmography:
For more on Harry Smith, contact Rani Singh at the Harry Smith Archives: P.O. Box 1269 Stuyvesant Station New York, NY 10009 USA e-mail: rani22@aol.com -All films courtesy and © 1996 Anthology Film Archives and Harry Smith Archives. BibliographyAlchemyBeat Zen Come Closer Computerama Light Shows A White Wait Kinetica 1 Program Jordan Belson, Last of the Great MastersTenth Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference, August 1998. Animation Journal. v.7 n.2 (Spring 1999): 1-17. Articulated LightCatalog/Program Notes from 1995 series sponsored by Harvard Film Archive and Anthology Film Archives. Includes essays by William Moritz, Oskar Fischinger, Stan Brakhage, Harry Smith, Mary Ellen Bute, Robert Haller and others. Hy Hirsh Moritz, William The Absolute FilmMoritz, William. Lecture notes, WRO99, Media Art Biennale. Wrodaw, Poland: 1999. Color Music - Integral CinemaMoritz, William. "Musique de la Couleur - Cinéma Intégral (Color Music - Integral Cinema)." Poétique de la Couleur. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1995, 9-13. Non-Objective Film: the Second Generation. Exhibition catalog. Film as Film, Formal Experiment in Film, 1910 - 1975. London: Hayward Gallery, 1979, 59-71. Visual Music: Cave Paintings to MTV?Moritz, William. "Visuelle Musik: Höhlenmalereien für MTV? (Visual Music: Cave Painting to MTV?)" Sound & Vision. Frankfurt: Deutsches Filmmuseum, 1993, 132-145. Media Art in the 60s: The Abstract, The Spiritual and The PsychedelicCuba, Larry. Kinetica 4 Catalog 2002. Video Seen: the Roots of Music VideosMoritz, William. Grammy Pulse. v.2 n.5 (Oct/Nov 1984): 4-5. Visual Music and Film-As-Art in California Before 1950On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996 Keynote Address at Filmfest Dresden, 1995. Oskar Fischinger: Artist of the Century KINETICA 2 Catalog, 2000, by Dr. William Moritz Norman McLaren and Jules Engel: Post-ModernistsA Reader In Animation Studies. Ed. Jayne Pilling. Sydney: John Libbey, 1997, 104-111. Animation in the Post-Industrial EraMoritz, William. The Oxford History of World Cinema. Ed. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1996, 551-558. Artists' Testimonials for Oskar FischingerKinetica 2 Catalog, 2000 You Can't Get Then From NowJournal: Southern California Art Magazine. Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. n.29 (Summer 1981): 26-40, 70-72. Enlightenment"James Whitney" Pour une Ecologie des Media: Art Cinéma Vidéo Ordinateur. Paris: Astarti, 1998, 151. First published as "Rétrospective James Whitney." Exhibition catalog. Toronto International Animation Festival program. 1984, 9-14. The Importance of Being Fischinger Moritz, William. Ottawa International Animated Film Festival Program, 1976, 2-6. LinksHarry Smith Archives |