SATURDAY, JULY 12 – 8:00 PM – ONE NIGHT ONLY

“All of a sudden it hit me—if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can’t there be figures of motion?” -Len Lye

The iotaCenter is the premiere source for the presentation, preservation, and research of visual music, a language of abstract experimental film pioneered by figures like Mary Ellen Bute, Len Lye, and Harry Smith, and continued to the present day.

In conjunction with the New York City premiere of newly restored works by Robert Darroll, Spectacle is pleased to also partner with the iotaCenter on a retrospective of works ranging from the 1960s to present: an evening of visual music, color rhythm, color music, rhythmic light, lumia, digital harmony, liquid light, absolute film, visual harmony, abstract animation, abstract expressionist cinema, and kinetica.

Special thanks to Huckleberry Lain.

TENTATIVE SCREENING LIST (All 16mm Prints Confirmed)

SCRATCH PAD
Hy Hirsh, 1960. 8 min. On 16mm!

HEAVY LIGHT
Adam K. Beckett, 1973. 7 min. On 16mm!

FURIES
Sara Petty, 1977. 3 min. On 16mm!

CALCULATED MOVEMENT
Larry Cuba, 1985. 7 min. On 16mm!

BLOOMY GIRLS
Takagi Masakatsu, 2005. 5 min.

JOSHUA HIS TREE
Michael Robinson, 2006. 6 min.

SON OF PUDDLE JUMPER
Chris Casady, 2009. 2 min.

APRES LE FEU
Jacques Perconte, 2010. 7 min.

THE DEEP DARK
Laura Heit, 2011. 7 min.

FIELDS
Dr. Strangeloop, 2012. 7 min.

ANTIQUITIES FOR THE QUEEN OF ANGELS
Huckleberry Lain, 2013. 10 min.

OCEAN
Stephanie Maxwell, 2014. 12 min.

About the iotaCenter

The iotaCenter is a non-profit arts organization, founded in 1994, devoted to the preservation and promotion of experimental animation and abstract visual music. Through our online discussion group and The Visual Music Village social network, we foster a worldwide community of artists, scholars and fans of this art form. iota has received numerous grants for its programs in film preservation and archiving and maintains a video study center for students, scholars and curators doing research in the genre.