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Visual Variations on Noguchi

Visual Variations on Noguchi

1945Short⏱️ 4m
ShortMystery
5.3
IMDB Rating
160 votes

A voice occasionally says a word or two: "on the sidewalk" or "lithium" or a woman's name. A hand-held camera frames parts of sculptures, or moves across their surfaces, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, almost always in close-...

Director
Marie Menken
Writers
N/A
Stars
N/A
Language
None
Country
United States
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🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Color
Black and White
Production
Gryphon Productions

🏷️ Keywords

experimental shortsculptureart

🎯 Categories

MysteryShort

⭐ Featured Review

Forcing Art Object to React to the Context
by p_radulescu2019-11-06
8/10

"A handheld camera permeating a studio full of statues (kind of huge abstract constructions: Noguchi's studio); starting to explore them, one by one, each one in relation with itself and with its constitutive parts, as to discover some holistic verities; each one in relation with the others, as to discover some conversation around; a conversation as a voiceless movement along the surface of the statue; sometimes very slow movements, sometimes rapid, sometimes like chaotic; wich makes sense, as any conversation has moments of slowness and of speed, moments of fluidity and of chaos. Marie M..."

📖 Synopsis

A voice occasionally says a word or two: "on the sidewalk" or "lithium" or a woman's name. A hand-held camera frames parts of sculptures, or moves across their surfaces, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, almost always in close-...