If you are going to be up in the Seattle in April, this showcase is something you may want to check out. through mid April the Northwest Film Forum will be hosting some excellent, rare historic music films from the experimental pioneers.
quote from site:
Northwest Film Forum and The Sprocket Society, in association with Center For Visual Music, present this special series celebrating the history of Visual Music.
Over the past century, there have been a number of prescient artists who’ve approached cinema as a tool for merging visual art and music in order to create a new art form and explore uncharted areas of synaesthetic experience. Through a vibrant history of cinematic experiments, these pioneers have been inventing the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and technologies on which our modern image-and-sound culture is based.
VISUAL MUSIC is a rare opportunity to see restored film prints of work by such master animators as Oskar Fischinger, Mary Ellen Bute, Jordan Belson, Robert Breer and many others on the big screen. In addition, we’ll host a panel discussion on Seattle’s own history of visual music in the 1960s and early ’70s.
Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective, April 9
Mary Ellen Bute: Seeing Sound, April 10 (in association with Cecile Starr)
Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane, April 11.
…and some extra goodies to catch!
