Movies: Fluxus

A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is projected at normal speed, 24 frames per second, thus creating a slow-motion effect....

Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film. No camera....

This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in post-WWII European Jazz and free improvisation. Archival footage, rehearsal / performance sequences and i...

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Single frame exposures, color. Different image each frame, various items in the room, etc....

A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression....

X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking....

In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light, occasionally altered by the appearance of scratches and dust particles in the surface of the damaged film mate...

Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all....

Following a series of title cards, a man in sunglasses briefly flutters his hands like fairy. Owen Land states that this film was not made by George Landow, and believes it should be credited to John Cavanaugh. “George Maciunas had a number of films ...

This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace....

Features entrance and exit door signs, fading through black and white....

Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other....

Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion....

Prestype on clear film measuring tape, 10ft. length. No camera. At the end of every foot of film numbers appear, 1, 2, etc to 10...

"Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."...

Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame....

Single frame exposures of dot-screens....

A handful of rocks and chestnuts falling, filmed with high speed camera....

Flicker: White and black alternating frames....