Movies: Fluxus

Flicker: White and black alternating frames....

A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is projected at normal speed, 24 frames per second, thus creating a slow-motion effect....

This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace....

A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression....

Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other....

This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in post-WWII European Jazz and free improvisation. Archival footage, rehearsal / performance sequences and i...

Features entrance and exit door signs, fading through black and white....

"Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."...

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures....

X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking....

Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers....

Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame....

Single frame exposures, color. Different image each frame, various items in the room, etc....

In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light, occasionally altered by the appearance of scratches and dust particles in the surface of the damaged film mate...

Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion....

Single frame exposures of words....

Word & number gag, no camera....

Mary Bauermeister is considered the mother of the Fluxus movement. In an attic on Cologne's Lintgasse, she made art history in the early 1960s alongside personalities such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Nam June Paik. Today, at the age of 85, she has n...

Following a series of title cards, a man in sunglasses briefly flutters his hands like fairy. Owen Land states that this film was not made by George Landow, and believes it should be credited to John Cavanaugh. “George Maciunas had a number of films ...

Single frame exposures of dot-screens....