Visual variations on Noguchi

Filme realizada por Marie Menken en 1945 (revisada en 1955). La banda sonora la forma la pieza 'Poetry of natural sound' de Lucille Dlugoszewski.

Sinopsis
This is an experimental short made in sculptor Isamu Noguchi's MacDougal Alley studio in New York. Noguchi had to be out of town for a time and asked filmmaker Marie Menken to look after the place. She brought her camera with her and filmed the sculptures utilizing hand-held techniques, appearing to imbue Noguchi's smooth and curvaceous sculptures with 'movement.' Menken later heightened the effect though skillful editing. At the time Visual Variations on Noguchi was first presented, no one had ever seen anything like it. Canadian animator Norman McLaren endorsed it, saying 'never before have I seen such purely dynamic treatment of sculpture in film.' Visual Variations on Noguchi circulated for years as a silent short through Menken's Gryphon film distribution company, but in 1955 she re-edited the title somewhat and added a striking soundtrack by composer Lucia Dlugoszewski; this is the form in which the film now stands. ~-David Lewis, All Movie Guide

Notas
'By use of hand-held, ambulating camera, unusual editing and a startling experimental score by Lucille Dlugozewski, the sculptures of the famous Japanese-American artist, Isamu Noguchi, are given audacious movement in a controversial art-film experiment. --Cinema 16

'Never before have I seen such purely dynamic treatment of sculpture in film. Marie Menken has successfully transformed Noguchi's sculpture into her own medium. --Norman McLaren

Enlaces
*Notes on Marie Menken DVD

Autor: 

Año: 

1945
Technical data

Formato original: 

16mm

Velocidad: 

24FPS

Ratio de aspecto: 

1.37:1

Color: 

B&N

Sonido: 

Óptico

Duración: 

4 minutes

Distribución/ventas: 

Copias en alquiler:
Canyon Cinema

*Arsenal Experimental

Venta:

Visual Variations on Noguchi es uno de los contenidos extra de la edición en DVD de Notes on Marie Menken, publicado por el sello austríaco Index.

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