A film in which both sound and image were created with a minimum of photographic or electronic equipment. The images are a few simple geometric forms—squares, circles, lines, ellipses—arranged and counter-arranged to generate an increasing number of perceived images. Their appearance on the screen is as percussive as the sound that
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Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
007956
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Optical illusion
Animation → Animated films - Canada
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art and motion pictures
Crafts & Visual Arts → Form (Aesthetics)
Crafts & Visual Arts → Optical art
Crafts & Visual Arts → Optical illusion
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)