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The Sixties: Spirituality and Psychedelia

Screening on Film
Recently Restored

This first program of animated works explores the tradition of spiritual "visual music" as it emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. The filmmakers in these decades expanded their imagery with new technologies, including the optical printer, video, the analog computer, and the elaborate multi-projector light show. Some of these films have not been seen for decades and have been newly preserved for this special touring program.

Films include: The Tempest (Olvey & Brown, 1967), Lumigraph Film (Oskar and Elfriede Fischinger, c. 1969), High Voltage (James Whitney, 1957), 7362 (Pat O’Neill, 1967), Sunstone (Ed Emshwiller, 1979), Lapis (James Whitney, 1966), Cycles (Jordan Belson, Stephen Beck, 1975), OFFON (Scott Bartlett, 1968), Union (Stephen Beck, 1975), Rumble (Jules Engel, 1975), Permutations (John Whitney, 1968), Cibernetik 5.3 (John Stehura, 1969), The Single Wing Turquoise Bird Film Document (1970).

Program length 88 min.

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