This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.
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.
Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.
Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion.
Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film. No camera.
"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
Single frame exposures of words.
Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame.
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
"Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."
A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression.
Word & number gag, no camera.
Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers.
Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other.
This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in post-WWII European Jazz and free improvisation. Archival footage, rehearsal / performance sequences and interviews with both Mengelberg (the "godfather of Dutch improvised music") and key collaborators provide a clear insight in Mengelberg's original way of thinking and way of working.
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.
Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all.
Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject.
Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.