Movie: Rectangle & Rectangles

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    Rectangle & Rectangles

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    This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, colour filters and a camera. This animation film, without words, is designed to expose the power of the cinematic medium, and to illustrate the abstract nature of time.

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    1984-01-01

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    surrealvideo artabstractexperimentalgeometric shapes

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