Unseen cinema. 7, Viva la dance. Abstract experiment in kodachrome / Cineric Inc. presents ; by Slavko Vorkapich.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Vorkapich, Slavko, director.

Cineric (Firm), presenter.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

No linguistic content

Genre:

Experimental films.

Stop-motion animation films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 minutes)

Other Title:

Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film 1893-1941

Viva la dance : the beginnings of ciné-dance

Place of Publication:

United States : Filmmakers Showcase, 1940.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Viva La Dance is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. This dazzling stop-motion animation provided Vorkapich with a forum to demonstrate complex perceptual theories related to the persistence of vision and phi phenomenon. The dance of objects and their movements before the camera lens -somewhat similar to Oskar Fischinger's abstractions - illustrate many visual sensations playfully executed by Vorkapich. --Bruce Posner Serbian-born artist, Slavko Vorkapich settled 1925 in Santa Barbara as a portrait painter and by 1928, inspired by director Rex Ingram, entered Hollywood studios as a "montage" specialist. His name eventually became a noun describing the sequences for which he was famous. In later years, he made Pepsi commercials and lectured on principles of film art. --David Shepard. 16mm 1.37:1 color silent with music 2:49 minutes. New music by Robert Israel.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 24, 2020).

"Early American avant-garde film 1893-1941".

OCLC:

1191032494

Publisher Number:

ASP5053403/marc