Movies: Geometric shapes

  • 1969
    Knotte Grosse Loops

    Knotte Grosse Loops (1969)

    Knotte Grosse Loops

    01969HD

    These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent Filmmakers grant to produce Knotte Grosse but it was unfinished at the time of his death. The images allude to...

    Knotte Grosse Loops
  • 1983
    Precious Metal Variations

    Precious Metal Variations (1983)

    Precious Metal Variations

    01983HD

    An abstract animation film in which a series of shapes rotate and evolve into other forms producing an illusion of depth. Colour, texture and superimposed images undergo structural variations. - MIFF...

    Precious Metal Variations
  • 1973
    Evolution of the Red Star

    Evolution of the Red Star (1973)

    Evolution of the Red Star

    71973HD

    Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master image is formed, this continuously throbbing, pulsating sight is used to ring changes based on years of o...

    Evolution of the Red Star
  • 1983
    Sakuhin

    Sakuhin (1983)

    Sakuhin

    01983HD

    Yumi Shima's animated short film is an experiment with geometric objects....

    Sakuhin
  • 1984
    Rectangle & Rectangles

    Rectangle & Rectangles (1984)

    Rectangle & Rectangles

    01984HD

    This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, co...

    Rectangle & Rectangles