PARABOLA
UNSEEN CINEMA
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8m 30s
"Sculptor Rutherford Boyd worked in collaboration with Mary Ellen Bute and Ted Nemeth [under the banner of Expanding Cinema], whose New York City production facilities were placed at his disposal. Filmed frame-by-frame in a sequence of stills that varied the arrangement of sculptural pieces under controlled illumination, PARABOLA introduced the potential of a new design technique." — Douglas Dreishpoon
Music composed by Darius Milhaud (from LA CRÉATION DU MONDE).
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