Lapis

Duration:

Year Published: 1966

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Whitney, James.

Description: An abstract art film composed of images produced by an analog computer. The shifting kaleidoscopic patterns, mandalas, and starbursts trace a patterning of mystic meditation, accompanied by the sitar music of Ravi Shankar.

Complete Record: An experimental film composed of elaborate shifting patterns created by analogue computer accompanied by the sitar music of Ravi Shankar. The shifting kaleidoscope patterns, mandalas and starbursts are organised through the use of geometry and repetitions of detail. To the ancient alchemists Lapis was a kind of ‘philosopher’s stone’ or aid to meditation.

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE

This film is not rare.

5 users have this film:
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, AV Geeks Archive, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE, New York Public Library, Oddball Film and Video

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