Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first stirrings came from leading French artists-among them, Painters Alfred Manessier and Jean Bazaine, who had in the past drawn much of their visual language from Chartres's windows and had worked in stained glass themselves. The Viacryl coating, they charged, had ruined the transmission of light through the windows, shifted the color balance and, with its plastic gloss, canceled the irregular luminosity of the hand-cast glass. "I know what I see," says Bazaine. "Those windows, they were living. I have been looking at them for the past 50 years. Now they have no heart. Once they...
...equivalent of Cannes to the animation world," according to the program notes. Works by European and local Boston-area directors are included. Most of the works run under ten minutes. The shortest, All in a Woman's Day and Success Without College, by two Hampshire College students, are pithy visual epigrams that last not much longer than it takes to blink...
...Woman's Day by Jessica Sphon and Amateur Night by Thalia Goldman both strike unfortunate and harsh notes in a program characterized otherwise by cool sophistication and robust humor. Spohn at least handles her satire of women as sex objects with a deft control of her visual material, a collage of advertising images and photographs. But the stress on sadism and bodily functions is insistently strident. Goldman, an Israeli living in London, succeeds only in making her audience uncomfortable with a sketch that involves a humiliating striptease by a skinny ballerina and two fat women. The final shot...
...embarassment of riches offered by the Magic Movies series threatens to overwhelm the viewer at times. A dozen shorts in quick succession results in so many visual images that they tend to blur together by the end of the show. An intermission which breaks the program into two halves helps somewhat and the atmosphere at the Off-the-Wall theater (which is also a coffee house and photo gallery) is low-keyed and convivial. Until short subjects become a regular part of movie theater programming, Off-the-Wall's approach is the most rewarding, if exhausting, way to see these...
...Basically, we, and our fashion competitors, use language and visual displays that are perfectly familiar to anyone who watches T.V. or goes to the movies," Casey said. "These are entertainment norms...