Trial and Error
Absolut Panushka, Jan-Apr 1997. Trial and Error Students at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles are encouraged to
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Dr. William Moritz
Computerama
With improvements in computers (and improved access to them), several artists have made imaginative new films. Michael Scroggins, who had
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Come Closer
Hy Hirsh was a gourmet cook and the kind of tinkerer who could fix anything. He loved music of all
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Color Music: Integral Cinema
Integral Cinema, as Germaine Dulac called it — and none of the other terms for this genre (“Avant-Garde Film”, “Experimental
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Color Harmony/Color Music
The question of a “color harmony” very quickly becomes a question of a “color music”, because only in the specialized
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Beyond ‘Abstract’ Criticism
Five years ago in the pages of this journal I outlined the special need in the experimental film field for
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In the Abstract
Abstract animation flourished in the 1970s. Artist Robert Breer began making animated films in Paris in the 1950s as an extension of
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Animation in the Post-Industrial Era
The Oxford History of World Cinema, 1996 Animation in the Post-Industrial Era Dr. William Moritz By 1960 cartoon shorts were
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International Experimental Film Congress, 1989. Abstract Films of the 20s Dr. William Moritz The “avant-garde” films of the 1920s have
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Animation 101
Absolut Panushka, Jan-Apr 1997. By 1993, the official ASIFA register of schools that teach animation listed more than one hundred
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