Visual Music

"ABSTRACTION / ANIMATION / MUSIC"

Selections from the iotaCenter's Media Collection

Saturday, August 14,  1999
11am  (theater opens at 11:45)
Laemmle Theatre: Monica 4-plex
1332 2nd Street
Santa Monica, CA

Admission is free, but reservations are required.
Just give us your name, phone number and=20
the number of seats you're requesting.  Email this information
to info@iotacenter.org or leave it on our voice mail
at 310 842 8704.
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Dr. William Moritz, noted authority on experimental animation
and visual music will introduce a selection of 16mm and 35mm
films from the iotaCenter's collection.

Highlights of the screening include

--- a hand-painted film record from 1903 of a dance by
visual music artist, Loie Fuller, the darling of Paris'=20
Folies Bergere

---a film record of Charles Dockum performing live on the
visual music instrument he invented in the 30's and 40's,
the Dockum Mobilcolor Projector

---from the legendary Vortex Concerts, produced by artist Jordon
Belson and composer Henry Jacobs for the Morrison Planetarium
in San Francisco in the 1950s, two films:  High Voltage by James
Whitney and Allures by Jordan Belson

---a rare presentation in 35mm of Oskar Fischinger's tour de force,=20
from 1937, Optical Poem

Also on the program:

In the Night by Walter Ruttman
Furies by Sara Petty
#11 by Harry Smith
Come Closer by Hy Hirsch
Free Radicals by Len Lye
Celery Stalks at Midnight by John Whitney, Sr
Stars and Stripes by Norman McLaren
Silence by Jules Engel
3/78 by Larry Cuba
Beethoven Machinery by David Brody
Impressions in the Upper Atmosphere by Jose Sistiaga
Algorithm by Baerbel Neubauer
Bubbles by Karel Dodal
Study # 6 by Oskar Fischinger =20

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