Movies: Geometric shapes

  • 1980
    Precious Metal

    Precious Metal (1980)

    Precious Metal

    01980HD

    A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards....

    Precious Metal
  • 1973
    Evolution of the Red Star

    Evolution of the Red Star (1973)

    Evolution of the Red Star

    71973HD

    Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master image is formed, this continuously throbbing, pulsating sight is used to ring changes based on years of o...

    Evolution of the Red Star
  • 1969
    Knotte Grosse Loops

    Knotte Grosse Loops (1969)

    Knotte Grosse Loops

    01969HD

    These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent Filmmakers grant to produce Knotte Grosse but it was unfinished at the time of his death. The images allude to...

    Knotte Grosse Loops
  • 1972
    Keep on Turning

    Keep on Turning (1972)

    Keep on Turning

    01972HD

    In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem....

    Keep on Turning
  • 1984
    Rectangle & Rectangles

    Rectangle & Rectangles (1984)

    Rectangle & Rectangles

    01984HD

    This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, co...

    Rectangle & Rectangles