Five Film Exercises – Film 1
Five Film Exercises – Film 1
John Whitney, James Whitney
Animation and Musique concrète 2021
Experimental Film
USA
1943
5 minutes
without dialogue
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The Whitney brothers are pioneers of abstract animation. In 1943/1944, they experimented in five film exercises with modernist form and a device of their own that wrote directly on the soundtrack of the film by means of an impact pendulum. The resulting analogue electronic bleeps and bits are accompanied by moving stencils in constantly alternating coloured backlight whose shadows change their geometrical shape.
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John Whitney, James Whitney