Unseen cinema. 3, Light rhythms. Night on bald mountain / Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker.
LIGHT RHYTHMS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Alexeieff and Parker made their film using a pinscreen animation technique, arranging and rearranging thousands of pins so that, when illuminated, they produced variations in sha...
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| Other title: | Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1893-1941. Light rhythms : music and abstraction. Night on bald mountain. |
| Format: | Video |
| Language: | No linguistic content |
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[United States] :
Filmmakers Showcase,
1933.
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| Summary: | LIGHT RHYTHMS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Alexeieff and Parker made their film using a pinscreen animation technique, arranging and rearranging thousands of pins so that, when illuminated, they produced variations in shadow from black to white. The effect resembles a mezzotint. This fantasy illustrating Moussorgsky's music presents goblins, skeletons, and other fantastic creatures performing terrifying feats. -R. BRUCE ELDER Alexandre Alexeieff was 20 when he arrived in Paris to escape the Russian civil war. He brought Russia with him when he illustrated books by Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy. With his pin board collaborator Claire Parker, he made animated films illustrating Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain", and "Pictures at an Exhibition", and Gogol's "The Nose". -ARAM BOYAJIANBoston-born Claire Parker was an adventurous art student when she met Russian-born book illustrator Alexandre Alexeieff in Paris. Her financial support and technical and artistic assistance led to their invention of pinboard animation (patented in her name) and to the creation of their first masterwork, "Une Nuit sur le Mont Chauve" (1933). -CECILE STARR Original title: "Une Nuit sur le Mont Chauve". 35mm 1.37:1 black and white sound 8 minutes. Music: Modest Mussorgsky. |
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| Item Description: | "Music and abstraction" Title from resource description page (viewed June 08, 2020) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (9 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:08:26 |
| Production Credits: | Music: Modest Mussorgsky. |
| Language: | Silent, with musical accompaniment. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Public performance rights obtained |