Spirals


Rental Format(s): 16mm film

This film is intentionally silent, it may not be screened with music.

"Like STAFFS, numerous reels of SPIRALS survive, many of them duplicate copies of simple footage intended as background elements in more complex films ....

"The first two sequences are so much alike that I have little doubt they were once part of the same finished film. They show scenes basically composed of concentric circular, spiral and radiating patterns moving in such ways that they produce optical illusions of great depth leading off into an eternally distant vanishing point. The editing, like that of STAFFS, contains some two frame intercutting, but primarily concentrates on clever alternations of sequences which suggest point-of-view of a first person camera, as in the superimposition of static dark circles over the dizzying whirlpool to create the feeling that the spectator is actually flying into some infinite vortex. This powerful sequence is a worthy predecessor to the magnificent vortex-eye of RADIO DYNAMICS." - Dr. William Moritz, Film Culture

Image (c) Center for Visual Music

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16mm film $40.00  

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