Movies: Geometric shapes

  • 2003
    Allahu Akbar

    Allahu Akbar (2003)

    Allahu Akbar

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    Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The ...

    Allahu Akbar
  • 1980
    Precious Metal

    Precious Metal (1980)

    Precious Metal

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    A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards....

    Precious Metal
  • 2012
    Shift

    Shift (2012)

    Shift

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    An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or predict the end of the world....

    Shift
  • 1969
    Knotte Grosse Loops

    Knotte Grosse Loops (1969)

    Knotte Grosse Loops

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    These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent Filmmakers grant to produce Knotte Grosse but it was unfinished at the time of his death. The images allude to...

    Knotte Grosse Loops
  • 1950
    Film No. 4

    Film No. 4 (1950)

    Film No. 4

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    Colorful Kodachrome cubes and lines are synchronized to a jaunty tune. This film, found in the collection of Chicago-based filmmaker Margaret Conneely, was made by amateur filmmaker Denver Sutton of San Francisco, and was distributed by the Northern ...

    Film No. 4