While structural film was the dominant form within the avant-garde tradition at the dawn of the 1970s, animators used shape and structure in a variety of ways that differentiated their works. Robert Russett composed geometric patterns and colour sequences in complex rhythms to create his pulsing, abstract films. Paul Glabicki created incisive, analytical works that explored objects through image, language, form and movement, drafting stunningly complicated sequences by hand.

Peggy Ahwesh presents a selection of works including the premiere of her new video "The Blackest Sea” in a program with Julie Murray and Bruce Conner taking place at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in connection with the exhibition "Bruce Conner: It's All True" currently on view at the museum.

"Known in part for their distinct approaches to found-footage cinema, which have straddled analogue and digital technologies, filmmakers Peggy Ahwesh and Julie Murray will share some of their own films alongside a pair of melancholic Conner films from the late 1970s: TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND (1977) and VALSE TRISTE (1978)." — MoMA, Program Notes