Movies: Geometric shapes

  • 1972
    Keep on Turning

    Keep on Turning (1972)

    Keep on Turning

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    In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem....

    Keep on Turning
  • 1969
    Knotte Grosse Loops

    Knotte Grosse Loops (1969)

    Knotte Grosse Loops

    01969HD

    These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent Filmmakers grant to produce Knotte Grosse but it was unfinished at the time of his death. The images allude to...

    Knotte Grosse Loops
  • 2011
    NOOR (Light)

    NOOR (Light) (2011)

    NOOR (Light)

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    A tribute to the Masters of Middle Eastern Patterns. NOOR is 4D animation of classical design motifs and calligraphy from Arabic, Persian, Moroccan, and others. Inspired in part by British scholar Keith Critchlow's 1976 scholarly book "Islamic Patter...

    NOOR (Light)
  • 2022
    Infinite Blue

    Infinite Blue (2022)

    Infinite Blue

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    Last minutes of HDN Pegasus overseeing the colossus movement, trough the eyes of only one survivor. But when and where?...

    Infinite Blue
  • 1984
    Rectangle & Rectangles

    Rectangle & Rectangles (1984)

    Rectangle & Rectangles

    01984HD

    This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, co...

    Rectangle & Rectangles
  • 1950
    Film No. 4

    Film No. 4 (1950)

    Film No. 4

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    Colorful Kodachrome cubes and lines are synchronized to a jaunty tune. This film, found in the collection of Chicago-based filmmaker Margaret Conneely, was made by amateur filmmaker Denver Sutton of San Francisco, and was distributed by the Northern ...

    Film No. 4