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  [Feedback footage]

  Pat Lehman

  Footage filmed off a TV monitor as the videomakers adjust camera settings to achieve abstract visual patterns. Offscreen direction and commentary as they experiment.

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  Decca Dance

  Pat Lehman

  An experimental work combining live footage of dancers, video effects and distortions, and abstract patterns created through video manipulations.

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  [Image processing footage]

  Pat Lehman

  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.

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  Runner, Feedback, Runner

  Pat Lehman

  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.” […]

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  Fractal I / Fractal II

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  Abstract computer animations in which complex patterns form from the gradual build-up of colorful pixels. Also known as “Fractile I” and “Fractile II.”

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  [Image Processing footage: Stairs, Worms]

  Arts & Culture, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Processing, Pat Lehman

  Image processing experiments applying different techniques to manipulate and distort video footage.

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  Video Vitae

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Processing, Pat Lehman

  “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.

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  Pattern Permutations / Homage to Albers / Roving Rectangles / Color Fields / Square Dance

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Processing, Pat Lehman

  A compilation of colorful abstract animations created with computers.