John Whitney Sr.
1917 - 1995Abstract Cinema
Keith Griffiths
Stan Brakhage, Jules Engel
Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their own experiments in the field of visionary filmmaking.
Abstract Cinema
Arabesque
John Whitney Sr.
John Whitney's pioneering work of computer animation, Arabesque, from 1975. This flowing, abstract short film is a wonder to behold, a work of art. Like many other computer graphics pioneers, this film suggests roots in psychedelics and spiritual quests as much as engineering and mathematics.
Arabesque
Five Film Exercises: Film 5
John Whitney Sr., James Whitney
Opens with a short canonical statement of a theme upon which the entire film is constructed. The canon is repeated in contrasting variations by means of color. A second section poses the same image in deep film space. The image unfolds itself repeatedly, leaving the receding image to continue on smaller and smaller.
Five Film Exercises: Film 5
Five Film Exercises: Film 1
John Whitney Sr., James Whitney
Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure is more condensed, and finally used in reverse to conclude the film.
Five Film Exercises: Film 1
A Personal Search For the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art
John Whitney Sr.
A Personal Search For the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art (1992) uses the concept of complementarity to make sense of the confusion that existed between fine art and technology in the late 20th century.
A Personal Search For the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art
