Fluxfilms

(PT)

Number of Movies: 37

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Featured Cast

Ben Vautier

Directing

Featured Crew

Ben Vautier

Directing

37 Movies

Zen for Film

March 21, 1964

In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light, occasionally altered by the appearance of scratches and dust particles in the surface of the damaged film material. This a film which depicts only its own material qualities; An "anti-film", meant to encourage viewers to focus on the lack of concrete images.

"INVOCATION is Higgins' Satie movie... the purest attempt to clear art from any or all historical, esthetic, thematic, ornamental claptrap to regain the lost-eye consciousness." - Jonas Mekas

End After 9

March 10, 1966

Word & number gag, no camera.

A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression.

Blink

March 9, 1966

Flicker: White and black alternating frames.

9 Minutes

March 10, 1966

Time counter, in seconds and minutes.

10 Feet

January 1, 1966

Prestype on clear film measuring tape, 10ft. length. No camera. At the end of every foot of film numbers appear, 1, 2, etc to 10

1000 Frames

January 1, 1966

Numerals on clear film from 1 to 1000."

Eyeblink

March 10, 1966

A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is projected at normal speed, 24 frames per second, thus creating a slow-motion effect.

Entrance to Exit

December 31, 1966

Features entrance and exit door signs, fading through black and white.

Trace No. 22

January 1, 1966

Begins with a picture of Marilyn Monroe, then shifts to a female body, shot from belly button down, which is wriggling under piles of cellophane.

Trace No. 23

January 1, 1966

Begins with a shot of a demarcation line on an asphalt tennis court. A hand points to the distant landscape, then numbers 408 and 409 appear on a female torso.

Trace No. 24

January 1, 1966

X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking.

One

March 10, 1966

Collected as part of the Fluxfilm Anthology (a multi-reel compendium of 37 short films assembled by Fluxus founder and central operator George Maciunas), One captures the lifespan of a single match recorded at 2,000 frames per second using a 16mm high-speed camera. The frame rate is then decelerated to the standard 24fps for presentation. The film emphasizes each gesture, sway and flare of flame as the small pinewood carrier ignites across the landscape of the filmstrip and screen, signalling the drama and poetics of this ”minor” event before the fire is extinguished. One also stands as an unassuming beacon, immortalizing on film the essence of some of Ono’s early concerns as an artist. At the slightest touch of fire, they burst into flame. Strike everywhere. Strike often.

Eyeblink

January 1, 1966

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No. 4

February 6, 1966

This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.

5 O'Clock in the Morning

January 22, 1966

A handful of rocks and chestnuts falling, filmed with high speed camera.

Smoking

March 9, 1966

Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion.

Opus 74, Version 2

January 1, 1966

Single frame exposures, color. Different image each frame, various items in the room, etc.

Artype

January 1, 1966

Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film. No camera.

Fluxfilm No. 21

January 1, 1966

This is fluxfilm No. 21 and without a title

Shout

March 10, 1966

Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other.

Sun in Your Head

July 7, 1963

"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures of texts like: 'silence, genius at work' and 'ich liebe dich.' The end credit is 'Television décollage, Cologne, 1963."

Readymade

January 1, 1966

Color test strip from developing tank.

The Evil Faerie

January 2, 1966

Following a series of title cards, a man in sunglasses briefly flutters his hands like fairy. Owen Land states that this film was not made by George Landow, and believes it should be credited to John Cavanaugh. "George Maciunas had a number of films which didn’t have titles on them. Then he put them together into his Fluxus reel and tried to remember who made them. It was an intentional Fluxus joke." (Owen Land, interview with Mark Webber, 2004)

Sears Catalogue 1-3

January 1, 1966

Each film frame is a different image from the Sears Roebuck mail order catalogue. The film places pictures of the objects sold by Sears to the consumer society side by side with pictures of female models

Dots 1 & 2

January 1, 1966

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

Wrist Trick

January 1, 1966

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

Word Movie

January 1, 1966

Single frame exposures of words.

Dance

January 1, 1966

"Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."

Police Car

January 1, 1966

Cale makes a short film called Police Car. No sound, and it is in black & white. Part #31 in the Fluxus Film series.

Fluxfilm No. 36

January 1, 1970

Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame.

Fluxfilm No. 37

January 1, 1970

Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject.

Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.

Swimming across Nice harbour fully clothed. Ben swims across a bay in Nice.

Faire un effort

January 1, 1969

Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers.

Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all.

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