Unseen cinema. 3, Light rhythms. Light and abstraction / Cineric, Inc presents ; by Francis Bruguière.

[United States] : Filmmakers Showcase, 1931.

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In the late 1920s, Francis Bruguière exhibited photographic works based on dramatically lit, cut, and folded paper shapes, some figurative, some abstract. "Light Rhythms" is a strictly abstract film that added new dimensions to these shapes: moving light sources, a scheme of superimpositions, and the elements of time and music. --DAVID CURTIS American photographer Bruguière devoted himself to ceaseless experimentation in multiple exposure montage prints of persons and places, stylist modernist advertising imagery, abstract short films examining the play of light on cut paper forms, and solarized figure studies in the style of Man Ray. --DAVID SHIELDS San Francisco photographer Francis Bruguiére completed the film "Danse Macabre "(1922) made with Dudley Murphy and one unfinished personal project "The Way"(1925). Later he collaborated with designer Norman Bel Geddes on a "psuedomorphic film" that was abandoned. --DAVID CURTISOswell Blakeston was a painter, poet, novelist, and prolific columnist on "advanced cinema" for journals such as "Close Up" and "Film Art". He collaborated with Francis Bruguière on Light Rhythms. In later life, he returned to painting and reviewing art exhibitions. Neither of Blakeston's other known films appears to have survived. --DAVID CURTIS Jack Ellitt was an Australian avant-garde composer who moved to England in 1928. Between 1929 and 1937 he collaborated with artist Len Lye on film soundtracks. He wrote and performed an improvisational piano score for Bruguiére's "Light Rhythms". From 1930 onward he directed documentary films and was a pioneer of electronic music. --ROGER HORROCKS 35mm 1.37:1 black and white silent with music 20fps 5:37 minutes. Music: Jack Ellitt.

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November 02, 2020

Music: Jack Ellitt.