HARRY SMITH: Early Abstractions
Numbers 1-5, 7 & 10. Color. 22 min. Hand-Painted Animation. "For thirty years Harry Smith worked on these movies, secretly, like an alchemist, and he worked out his own formulas and mixtures to produce these fantastic images. You can watch them for pure color enjoyment; you can watch them for motion -- Harry Smith's films never stop moving; or you can watch them for hidden and symbolic meanings, alchemic signs." (Jonas Mekas)
Films No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10. 16mm 1939-1956 color 23’
No. 1: Hand-drawn animation of dirty shapes — the history of the geologic period reduced to orgasm length.
No. 2: Batiked animation, etc., etc. The action takes place either inside the sun or in Zurich, Switzerland.
No. 3: Batiked animation made of dead squares, the most complex hand-drawn film imaginable.
No. 4: Black and white abstractions of dots and grillworks made in a single night.
No. 5: Color abstraction. Homage to Oskar Fischinger -- a sequel to No. 4.
No. 7: Optically printed Pythagoreanism in four movements supported on
squares, circles, grillwork, and triangles with an interlude concerning an experiment.
No. 10: An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballa in the form of a collage.
The final scene shows Agaric mushrooms growing on the moon
while the Hero and Heroine row by on a cerebrum.
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Homage to Oskar Fischinger (1950)
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