Movies: Fluxus

  • 1962
    Invocations of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage)

    Invocations of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage) (1962)

    Invocations of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage)

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    "INVOCATION is Higgins' Satie movie... the purest attempt to clear art from any or all historical, esthetic, thematic, ornamental claptrap to regain the lost-eye consciousness." - Jonas Mekas...

    Invocations of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage)
  • 1966
    No. 4

    No. 4 (1966)

    No. 4

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    This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace....

    No. 4
  • 2006
    AFIJN (Misha Mengelberg)

    AFIJN (Misha Mengelberg) (2006)

    AFIJN (Misha Mengelberg)

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    This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in post-WWII European Jazz and free improvisation. Archival footage, rehearsal / performance sequences and i...

    AFIJN (Misha Mengelberg)
  • 1966
    Dance

    Dance (1966)

    Dance

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    "Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."...

    Dance
  • 1966
    Eyeblink

    Eyeblink (1966)

    Eyeblink

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    A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is projected at normal speed, 24 frames per second, thus creating a slow-motion effect....

    Eyeblink
  • 1962
    Regardez moi cela suffit

    Regardez moi cela suffit (1962)

    Regardez moi cela suffit

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    Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all....

    Regardez moi cela suffit
  • 1965
    Trace #23

    Trace #23 (1965)

    Trace #23

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    Begins with a shot of a demarcation line on an asphalt tennis court. A hand points to the distant landscape, then numbers 408 and 409 appear on a female torso....

    Trace #23
  • 1966
    Blink

    Blink (1966)

    Blink

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    Flicker: White and black alternating frames....

    Blink
  • 1965
    Dots 1 & 2

    Dots 1 & 2 (1965)

    Dots 1 & 2

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    Single frame exposures of dot-screens....

    Dots 1 & 2
  • 1966
    10 Feet

    10 Feet (1966)

    10 Feet

    5.61966HD

    Prestype on clear film measuring tape, 10ft. length. No camera. At the end of every foot of film numbers appear, 1, 2, etc to 10...

    10 Feet
  • 1965
    Wrist Trick

    Wrist Trick (1965)

    Wrist Trick

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    Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures....

    Wrist Trick
  • 1969
    Faire un effort

    Faire un effort (1969)

    Faire un effort

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    Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers....

    Faire un effort
  • 1966
    Artype

    Artype (1966)

    Artype

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    Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film. No camera....

    Artype
  • 1965
    Sears Catalogue 1-3

    Sears Catalogue 1-3 (1965)

    Sears Catalogue 1-3

    6.51965HD

    Each film frame is a different image from the Sears Roebuck mail order catalogue. The film places pictures of the objects sold by Sears to the consumer society side by side with pictures of female models...

    Sears Catalogue 1-3
  • 1966
    Je ne vois rien, je n'entends rien, je ne dis rien

    Je ne vois rien, je n'entends rien, je ne dis rien (1966)

    Je ne vois rien, je n'entends rien, je ne dis rien

    4.51966HD

    Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged....

    Je ne vois rien, je n'entends rien, je ne dis rien
  • 1965
    Trace #24

    Trace #24 (1965)

    Trace #24

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    X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking....

    Trace #24
  • 1966
    Disappearing Music for Face

    Disappearing Music for Face (1966)

    Disappearing Music for Face

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    A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression....

    Disappearing Music for Face
  • 2021
    Mary Bauermeister - Eins plus eins ist drei

    Mary Bauermeister - Eins plus eins ist drei (2021)

    Mary Bauermeister - Eins plus eins ist drei

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    Mary Bauermeister is considered the mother of the Fluxus movement. In an attic on Cologne's Lintgasse, she made art history in the early 1960s alongside personalities such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Nam June Paik. Today, at the age of 85, she has n...

    Mary Bauermeister - Eins plus eins ist drei
  • 1970
    Fluxfilm No. 36

    Fluxfilm No. 36 (1970)

    Fluxfilm No. 36

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    Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame....

    Fluxfilm No. 36
  • 1966
    Readymade

    Readymade (1966)

    Readymade

    5.81966HD

    Color test strip from developing tank....

    Readymade