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Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025
Filmstill Making Patterns Move
Making Patterns Move
Ian Helliwell
Op Art patterns, filtered from a 1980s DIY book, are the basis of this hypnotic film. Abstract film can be funny? You bet!
Filmstill Making Patterns Move

Making Patterns Move

Making Patterns Move
Ian Helliwell
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025
Animated Film
UK
2021
5 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Examples from a DIY book about Op Art patterns form the basis of this hypnotic film. The images seem to move by themselves in front of our eyes. Their flowing and shimmering is driven by colour changes and cross-fades until the boundaries between actual and imagined movement become blurred. It is not only the soundtrack and title that herald the mischievous spirit of this work.

Franka Sachse

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Director
Ian Helliwell