Unseen cinema. 1, The mechanized eye. Episode 15, Travel notes / Cineric, Inc. presents ; by Walker Evans.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, director, editor of moving image work.
• Cineric (Firm), presenter.

Series:

• Academic Video Online

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

• Experimental films--United States.
• Motion pictures--United States.
• Ships.
• Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)--In motion pictures.

Genre:

• Short films.
• Silent films.
• Experimental films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (14 minutes)

Other Title:

• Mechanized eye : experiments in technique and form
• Schooner---islands---islanders
• Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1893-1941

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Filmmakers Showcase, 1932.

Language Note:

Silent with musical accompaniment.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

THE MECHANIZED EYE is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Movies are more difficult than I realized ... I was really surprised the stuff came out into well taken pictures, have learned from this little experience that results can be gotten anyway, by my own hand. - WALKER EVANS. During 1931-32, Walker Evans set sail for Tahiti. He was to document the voyage for his sponsors, thus providing Evans with an opportunity to shoot 35mm movies. He experimented with lenses and filters to make a film that matches in many ways his photographs of the same subjects. - BRUCE POSNER. He assembled a rough cut of the first ten minutes or so, which he titled Travel Notes: Ship-Islands-Islanders. In the first of its three sections, Evans examines the ship from an assortment of bird's-eye and angle views, intercut with formal studies of rope patterns and scenes of the crew running the ship. He follows with a more fluid section of mountainous landscapes seen from the moving boat, then studies of local flora. Finally, Evans records the nativees in a dance, making of the swaying figures a compressed, undulating tableau of bodies. -DOUGLAS EKLUND. Walker Evans is well known for his images documenting the effects of the Great Depression for the Resettlement Administration, Farm Security Administration, and "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men", his 1941 initmate collaboration with the writer James Agee. He also photographed many shop fronts, billboards, and the seemingly inconsequential details of urban and rural life. -LUC SANTE. Alternate title: "Schooner---Islands---Islanders" 35mm 1.33:1 black & white silent with music 16fps 12:42 minutes. Camera, editing Walker Evans; New music by Eric Beheim; Courtesy: Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Notes:

• Title from resource description page (viewed June 29, 2020).
• "Experiments in technique and form".
• "Early American avant-garde film, 1893-1941".

OCLC:

1191031933

Publisher Number:

ASP5053225/marc