Monday, September 15, 2008
early abstractions
im pretty sure this guy was on drugs while he was working/envisioning this piece. overall i liked most parts of this film. the soundtrack got a little old but i thought the visuals were enough to keep me attentive. it seemed as though he was just experimenting with different techniques in abstract film making and seeing what the potentials/limits of this form may be. i liked abstractions the most and as for the other two films neither of them really were that interesting however i did like the sound in Aberations.
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WEll yeah he was all kinds of drugs--and they are all listed in a supremely organized manner in his own words in the reading about Harry Smith in P.Adams Sitney's Visionary Film (handout). Smith was experimenting with his consciousness and utilizing his knowledge of various cultures and cosmologies in determining the form and shapes and transformations of the abstractions. REmember too he was a painter first, and you are right when you say that he was pushing the potential of the techiniques--those early films were made between 1939 and 1946 (!) and almost nothing had been done with film in this area. Geometry in any case is a deep subject...the greeks considered it a sacred study and and to be put to such quotidian earthly uses like measurement...
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