Movies: Geometric shapes
- 1980
Precious Metal (1980)
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A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards....
- 1973
Evolution of the Red Star (1973)
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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...
- 1969
Knotte Grosse Loops (1969)
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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...
- 1972
Keep on Turning (1972)
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In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem....
- 1984
Rectangle & Rectangles (1984)
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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...