Unseen cinema. 7, Viva la dance. Abstract experiment in kodachrome /
Viva La Dance is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. This dazzling stop-motion animation provided Vorkapich with a forum to demonstrate complex perceptual theories related to the persistence of vision and phi phenomenon. The dance o...
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| Format: | Video |
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United States :
Filmmakers Showcase,
1940.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Viva La Dance is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. This dazzling stop-motion animation provided Vorkapich with a forum to demonstrate complex perceptual theories related to the persistence of vision and phi phenomenon. The dance of objects and their movements before the camera lens -somewhat similar to Oskar Fischinger's abstractions - illustrate many visual sensations playfully executed by Vorkapich. --Bruce Posner Serbian-born artist, Slavko Vorkapich settled 1925 in Santa Barbara as a portrait painter and by 1928, inspired by director Rex Ingram, entered Hollywood studios as a "montage" specialist. His name eventually became a noun describing the sequences for which he was famous. In later years, he made Pepsi commercials and lectured on principles of film art. --David Shepard. 16mm 1.37:1 color silent with music 2:49 minutes. New music by Robert Israel. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed July 24, 2020). "Early American avant-garde film 1893-1941". |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (4 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:03:50 |
| Production Credits: | New music, Robert Israel. |