Heavy Visuals ‘69: Electronic Cinema and Experimental Film
September 23, 2009
Northwest Film ForumSeattle, WA
A selection of 1969’s cutting-edge landmarks in avant garde shorts, video art, and even computer animation.
The program included: Kenneth Anger (Invocation of My Demon Brother), Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut (Beatles Electronique, and Electronic Moon No. 2), Larry Jordan (Our Lady of the Sphere), Michael Whitney (Binary Bit Patterns), Scott Bartlett (Moon 1969), a rare screening of Le Labyrinthe by Piotr Kamler (with electronic score by Bernard Parmegiani), plus Stephan Gebhardt’s short documentary about controversial Aktionist performance artist Hermann Nitsch, An Introduction to the O.M. Theatre.
Presented as part of the Northwest Film Forum’s year-long series 69, celebrating the films of 1969.