Unseen cinema. 3, Light rhythms. Composition. 1, Themis /
LIGHT RHYTHMS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Grant had been an abstract painter for five years before making any abstract films. Their titles, "Themis", "Contrathemis", and "Three Themes in Variation...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | No linguistic content |
| Language Notes: | Silent. |
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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: | LIGHT RHYTHMS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Grant had been an abstract painter for five years before making any abstract films. Their titles, "Themis", "Contrathemis", and "Three Themes in Variation", illuminate his theory that the thematic structure of visuals is comparable to that of music. Therefore, Grant felt that his silent films created their own visual music. --CECILE STARR Dwinell Grant's early abstract film experiments, dating from the late 1930s, are regarded among the purest and most precise. He was the first to experiment with color field "flicker." A relatively private person, Grant had a long career as a commercial animator/illustrator of medical and science films and books. --ARAM BOYAJIAN . 16mm 1.37:1 color intentionally silent 3:36 minutes. Courtesy: Dwinell Grant. |
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| Item Description: | "Music and abstraction". Title from resource description page (viewed June 08, 2020). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (5 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:04:10 |