Movies: Harry Smith
- 1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
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An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s....
- 1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965)
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The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls...
- 2007
365 Day Project (2007)
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This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns...
- 1962
Heaven and Earth Magic (1962)
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The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel and Montreal. The second pa...
- 1951
No. 7: Color Study (1951)
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16 mm, color, silent, 5:25 or 15 min. "Optically printed Pythagoreanism in four movements supported on squares, circles, grillwork, and triangles with an interlude concerning an experiment."...
- 1997
Birth of a Nation (1997)
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....
- 1980
No. 18: Mahagonny (1980)
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Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1929) for over ten years and considered it his magnum opus. The f...
- 1965
Early Abstractions (1965)
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Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and six minutes long, and is named according to the chronological order in which it was made. The collecti...
- 1956
No. 10 (1956)
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16 mm, color, 3:35 or 10 min. Study for No. 11. "An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of a collage. The final scene shows Agaric mushrooms growing on the moon while the Hero and Heroine row by on a cerebrum."...
- 1967
No. 16: Oz: The Tin Woodman's Dream (1967)
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The Tin Woodman, framed by light bulbs, does a little dance, leaps and retrieves his axe from outside the frame, chops down a tree that turns into various objects, grabs a heart emblem from the corner, and goes to the Emerald City at night with Toto....
- 1939
No. 1: A Strange Dream (1939)
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Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, silent, 2:20 or 5 min. Initially intended to be screened with and synchronized to Dizzy Gillespie's Manteca or Guarachi Guaro. "...the history of the geologic period reduced to orgasm length."...
- 1956
No. 11: Mirror Animations (1956)
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Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso....
- 1947
No. 2: Message From the Sun (1947)
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Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, 2:15 or 10 min. Initially intended to be screened with and synchronized to Dizzy Gillespie's Algo Bueno. This film "takes place either inside the sun or in... Switzerland" according to Smith. To ...
- 1965
Chinese Checkers (1965)
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His Oriental predator is at first clothed in black, her 'victim' in white; slowly the costumes change, the victim acquiring a veil of mourning, until finally - as if to underline the ambiguity and interchangeability of their respective roles - the co...
- 1947
No. 4: Fast Track (1947)
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16 mm, black & white and color, 2:16 or 6 min. Silent though possibly intended to be screened with Dizzy Gillespie's Manteca. The film starts with a color sequence showing Smith's painting Manteca (ca. 1950) with which he tried to subjectively de...
- 1949
No. 5: Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger) (1949)
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Experimental short. 16 mm, color, silent, 2:30 or 6 min. Sequel to No. 4....
- 1947
No. 3: Interwoven (1947)
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Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, 3:20 or 10 min. Reportedly cut down from about 30 min. Initially intended to be screened with and synchronized to Dizzy Gillespie's Guarachi Guaro or Manteca. "Batiked animation made of dead squa...
- 1965
No. 14: Late Superimpositions (1965)
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“Superimposed photographs of Mr. Fleischman’s butcher shop in New York, and the Kiowa around Anadarko, Oklahoma–with Cognate Material. The strip is dark at the beginning and end, light in the middle, and is structured 122333221. I honor it the most o...
- 1954
No. 8 (1954)
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16 mm, black & white, silent, 5 min. Untraced collage. Later expanded to No. 12....
- 1962
No. 13: Oz (1962)
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Unfinished commercial adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz which was shelved after Smith's close friend, the executive producer and primary financial backer Arthur Young died of cancer. Portions released as No. 16, 19, and 20. Fro...