Fluxus Movies

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

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

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

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

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...

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...

Color test strip from developing tank.

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

Single frame exposures of words.

This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in...

Flicker: White and black alternating frames.

Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film. No camera.

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

A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression.

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light,...

Word & number gag, no camera.

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

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

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