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James & John Whitney

James & John Whitney. By Kyle Krivitsky & Morgan Libruk FILM344 Presentation Thursday, March 15, 2012. James Whitney (1921-1982). Filmmaker A bstract cinema Classics in visual music Spent life in LA Studied painting, traveled in England before WWII Ceramics & pottery

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James & John Whitney

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  1. James & John Whitney By Kyle Krivitsky & Morgan Libruk FILM344 Presentation Thursday, March 15, 2012

  2. James Whitney (1921-1982) • Filmmaker • Abstract cinema • Classics in visual music • Spent life in LA • Studied painting, traveled in England before WWII • Ceramics & pottery • After 1946, became interested in spiritual aspects that influenced later work • Alchemy • JidduKrishnamurti (psychological revolution, nature of mind, meditation, human relationships, positive change) • Jungian psychology (integrate unconscious forces/motivations) • Tao • Yoga

  3. John Whitney (1917-1995) • Animator, composer, inventor • Computer animation • California • Pomona College  studied music & photography in England • First works movies of lunar eclipse with homemade telescope • 1937-38 spent in Paris studying twelve-tone composition • Returned to America in 1939 & began collaborating with James on abstract films • 1960 – Motion Graphics Inc., mechanical analogue computer • Design templates placed on different layers of rotating tables & photographed by multiple-axis rotating cameras  creation of simultaneous motions • 1970s – faster digital processes • 1980s-90s – audio-visual composition program called “Whitney-Reed RDTD (Radius-Differential Theta Differential)” digital harmony

  4. Filmography • James Whitney • “Variations on a Circle” (1941-1942) • “Yantra” (1950-1957) • “Lapis” (1963-1966) • “Twenty-Four Variations on an Original Theme” (1939-1940) • “Film Exercises” (1934-1944) • Series of five (James 2-4, John 1 & 5) • Prize for best sound (1949) at Brussels Experimental Film Competition

  5. The Whitney Brothers Legacy • Experimental filmmaking • Recognized power of computers • Abstract art • Hypnosis • Indian sitar music • Kaleidoscope • Multiple angles • Oscillation • Trance

  6. Links • “Lapis” • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzniaKxMr2g • “Film Exercise #1” • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuZbgM8yxtY&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLB247FE10BCEBC67B • “Yantra” • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvWwlZSXaR0&feature=related

  7. References • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitney_(filmmaker) • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whitney_(animator) • http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/profile/whitney/early.html • http://blog.unl.edu/dixon/2011/09/14/john-and-james-whitney/

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