THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE OF CLARIFIED BUTTER
UNSEEN CINEMA
•
8m 28s
"I wanted to do a film which dealt with drawings which somehow had a life of their own, which existed in the same space as real objects and yet still had their own two-dimensional space... imagery that didn't refer to anything in our visual vocabulary, and also was so non-objective that it didn't refer to anything." - Owen Land [née George Landow]
Up Next in UNSEEN CINEMA
-
FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON
Four short films adapted from the poetry of James Broughton: GAME LITTLE GLADYS; THE GARDENER'S SON; PRINCESS PRINTEMPS; and THE AGING BALLETOMANE. Delightful and sentimental, the interludes recall silent cinema, full of playful mime and dreamy reverie. As such, the vignettes offer a welcome anti...
-
H2O
"H2O depicts water under a variety of forms, increasingly focusing on its ability to create a multileveled reality of surface and reflection. Ultimately, the film reduces a phantasmagoria of light and shadow that render its simple title almost ludicrous." — Scott MacDonald
Featuring a score comp...
-
HANDS
HANDS is an ingenious piece of propaganda that communicated not only through its content but through the very unconventionality of its "experimental structure." The film suggests that the government that produced it is imaginative and inventive, open to new possibilities and supportive of forms o...
