Fluxfilm Anthology
Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi, John Cavanaugh, James Riddle, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Yoko Ono, Pieter Vanderbeck, Joe Jones, Erik Andersen, George Maciunas, Jeff Perkins, Wolf Vostell, Albert Fine, George Landow, Paul Sharits, John Cale, Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr, and Ben Vautier
1962-1970, 120 min, b&w and color, sound
Fluxfilm Anthology
Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi, John Cavanaugh, James Riddle, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Yoko Ono, Pieter Vanderbeck, Joe Jones, Erik Andersen, George Maciunas, Jeff Perkins, Wolf Vostell, Albert Fine, George Landow, Paul Sharits, John Cale, Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr, and Ben Vautier
1962-1970, 120 min, b&w and color, sound
Dating from the sixties and compiled by George Maciunas (1931-1978, founder of Fluxus), Fluxfilm Anthology is a document consisting of 37 short films ranging from 10 seconds to 10 minutes in length. These films (some of which were meant to be screened as continuous loops) were shown as part of the events and happenings of the New York avant-garde. Made by the artists ranging from Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell to Yoko Ono, they celebrate the ephemeral humor of the Fluxus movement.
"Clear film, accumulating in time dust and scratches."
"Mouth, eating motions."
"Transition from smile to no-smile, shot at 2000fr/sec. Camera shows only a CU of the mouth area." – Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi
"Prestype on clear film measuring tape, 10ft. length. No camera. At the end of every foot of film numbers appear, 1, 2, etc to 10."
"A smooth linear transition from white, through greys to black, produced in developing tank. The 'door sign' ENTRANCE fades in, white letters on the black background, stays for a few seconds, then slowly fades into white. Five-minute fade into black and the title EXIT, which stays for a few seconds then fades into white."
"X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking."
"Begins with a shot of a demarcation line on an asphalt tennis court. A hand points to the distant landscape, then numbers 408 and 409 appear on a female torso. The female then passes different decorated plastic hot dogs, banana shapes suggestively between her legs, through her arm pits, etc. Ends with an egg floating on water."
"Begins with a picture of Marilyn Monroe, then shifts to a female body, shot from belly button down, which is wriggling under piles of cellophane."
"Sequences of buttock movement as various performers walked. Filmed at constant distance."
"A handful of rocks and chestnuts falling, filmed with high speed camera."
"Sequence of cigarette smoke shot with high speed camera, 2000fr/sec."
"Single frame exposures, color. Different image each frame, various items in the room, etc."
"Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film. No camera."
"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures of texts like: 'silence, genius at work' and 'ich liebe dich.' The end credit is 'Television décollage, Cologne, 1963."
"Color test strip from developing tank."
"A man on the roof making flying gestures with his hands. Film is preceded by a picture of an object of 'L' shape shakingly moving. At the end of the film, image of 'Kodak girl' briefly appears."
"Pages from Sears catalogue, single frame exp."
"Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures."
"Single frame exposures of words, color."
"Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."
"Underexposed sequence of blinking lights on a police car."
"Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame."
"Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject."
"Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged."
"Swimming across Nice harbour fully clothed. Ben swims across a bay in Nice."
"Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers."
"Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that's all."
Description
Fluxus' interdisciplinary aesthetic brings together influences as diverse as Zen, science, and daily life and puts them to poetic use. Initially received as little more than an international network of pranksters, the playful artists of Fluxus were, and remain, a network of radical visionaries who sought to reconcile art with life.
Dating from the sixties and compiled by George Maciunas (1931-1978, founder of Fluxus), Fluxfilm Anthology is a document consisting of 37 short films ranging from 10 seconds to 10 minutes in length. These films (some of which were meant to be screened as continuous loops) were shown as part of the events and happenings of the New York avant-garde. Made by the artists listed above, they celebrate the ephemeral humor of the Fluxus movement.
Published by Re:Voir.
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