Re: Joseph Schillinger

From: Sandra Naumann (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2006 - 04:29:02 PDT


Hi Joost,

thanks for your interest and the information. I have actually read the
article in "Experimental Cinema" and in the same
issue is a short note saying that Schillinger made several short films
to illustrate his principles of rhythm in motion. There is also a
reader's letter Schillinger wrote in response to an article about Bute
in CUE in 1939 where he claims to have made experimental motions
pictures in the field of pure kinetic design. Unfortunately that is all
I have.

Kind regards,

Sandra

Am 25.04.2006 um 00:46 schrieb Joost Rekveld:

> Hi Sandra,
>
> i'm curious, where did you read this ?
> I'm certainly not an expert on Schillinger, the only thing I know is
> that he saw abstract animation as an interesting field his theories of
> composition could be applied, and he does talk about it in his book
> 'The mathematical basis of the arts', but in that book he doesn't give
> examples showing he ever made any himself. He does show a still 'from
> an experiment', which shows an image vaguely reminiscent of Bute's
> later work.
>
> But I guess you knew all this, did you manage to track donw the
> article Moritz mentioned from 'Experimental Cinema No. 5 (1934)' ?
>
> If Bill Moritz said that it was not finished, however, i'd think he
> would have strong reasons to say so...
>
> very curious to know more if you ever find it..
>
> kind regards,
>
> Joost.
>
>
>
> On 24 Apr 2006, at 13:18, Sandra Naumann wrote:
>
>> Dear Frameworkers,
>>
>> does anybody know something about the film work of Joseph
>> Schillinger? I have read that he made several films to demonstrate
>> his theory of composition. I only know that he was working with
>> Jacobs and Bute on a film called "synchromy". But it seems not clear
>> if it was ever finished (Lewis Jacobs said nothing that it was not
>> completed, Moritz said it was not finished). If it was finished are
>> there are any copies? And did he actually made other films?
>>
>> Thanks for your help & kind regards,
>>
>> Sandra Naumann
>>
>>
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