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James Whitney

Director
James Whitney was a filmmaker regarded as one of the great masters of abstract cinema. Several of his films are classics in the genre of visual music.

27-12-1921

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Capricorn

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Total Films

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Pasadena, California

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Kang jing xiang

Kang jing xiang

Directed by James Whitney.
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1982

Wu ming

Wu ming

Animated short directed by James Whitney.
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1977

Dwija

Dwija

Dwija (1973), meaning “twice-born” or “soul” in Sanskrit. Completely solarized, its imagery is rear projected and re-photographed, to create a constant flow of hardly definable transformations of color and form.
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1973

Lapis

Lapis

James Whitney’s Lapis (1966) is a classic work of abstract cinema, a 10-minute animation that took three years to create using primitive computer equipment. In this piece smaller circles oscillate in and out in an array of colors resembling a kaleidoscope while being accompanied with Indian sitar music. The patterns become hypnotic and trance inducing. This work clearly correlates the auditory and the visual and is a wonderful example of the concept of synaesthesia.
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1966

High Voltage

High Voltage

High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.
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1959

Yantra

Yantra

"Completed in 1957, less than ten minutes long, Yantra is questionably catalogued as abstract. Witness Brakhage's concept of closed-eye vision and our generic attribute of experimental film/video's affinity for mental imagery." -Edward Small, Direct Theory.
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1957

Five Film Exercises: Film 5

Five Film Exercises: Film 5

Opens with a short canonical statement of a theme upon which the entire film is constructed. The canon is repeated in contrasting variations by means of color. A second section poses the same image in deep film space. The image unfolds itself repeatedly, leaving the receding image to continue on smaller and smaller. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
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1944

Five Film Exercises: Film 4

Five Film Exercises: Film 4

The entire film is divided into four consecutive chosen approaches—the fourth section devoted to a reiteration and extension of the original material. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.
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1944

Five Film Exercises: Film 2-3

Five Film Exercises: Film 2-3

Two short fragments resulting from experiments in controlling the mechanical development of the instrument. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
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1944

Five Film Exercises: Film 1

Five Film Exercises: Film 1

Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure is more condensed, and finally used in reverse to conclude the film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
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1943

Variations on a Circle

Variations on a Circle

A film by James Whitney.
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1942

24 Variations on a Theme

24 Variations on a Theme

First film by the Whitney brothers.
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1940