[Feedback footage]
Footage filmed off a TV monitor as the videomakers adjust camera settings to achieve abstract visual patterns. Offscreen direction and commentary as they experiment.
Footage filmed off a TV monitor as the videomakers adjust camera settings to achieve abstract visual patterns. Offscreen direction and commentary as they experiment.
An experimental work combining live footage of dancers, video effects and distortions, and abstract patterns created through video manipulations.
Abstract imagery created by manipulating video cameras, filming off monitors, while a band plays music. Filmed in a TV studio. People dance and make faces and goof around for the cameras, watching their images on monitors.
00:04 Title superimposed over footage of long distance runners. Ramsey Lewis’s song “Sun Goddess” plays. 00:19 Footage of runners with image processing/visual effects. 07:28 Increasingly abstract visual effects. 11:01 End credits: “This videotape was conceived, filmed, and edited by Charles Ford. the end.” 11:18 Title card: Abstract 287. Abstract visual effects achieved through image processing and superimposition. Set to the song “Y Sharp” by Osbisa. 19:03 End credits: “This videotape was conceived, filmed, and edited by Charles Ford. the end.” […]
Abstract computer animations in which complex patterns form from the gradual build-up of colorful pixels. Also known as “Fractile I” and “Fractile II.”
Image processing experiments applying different techniques to manipulate and distort video footage.
“This piece, executed on a hybrid computer developed by the Computer Image Corp., is an impressionistic view of a woman in conflict.” An image processing work that abstracts images of a woman. Premiered at the Women’s Video Festival in 1975.
A compilation of colorful abstract animations created with computers.