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Show May 20, 25, 31 Kinetic Art Comes-To U the creation of the universe, its persistence and eventual transformation. transform-ation. Nine More Films The rest of the first program is rounded out by nine other films. "Life in a Tin," an Italian production produc-tion by Bruno Bozetto, is a cartoon of translucent color depicting the tale of an elephant finding a mate. "If" by Oimel Mai of the Ulm (Continued on Page 6) By CHRISS SCOTT Chronicle Staff Writer "The term, 'quality shorts' used to refer to men's underwear. Now however, it means the cream the rare best of the wildly variegated var-iegated low-budget reels that are being cranked out all over the world today by the teeming hordes of anti - Establishment film - makers, who are frequently imaginative, often skillful, occasionally trail-blazing trail-blazing and sometimes moronic," wrote Charles Cooke, critic for the Washington Star newspaper. An international collection of i "quality shorts" has recently been released in a three-part series entitled, en-titled, "The Kinetic Art." Films Come To U The films premiered in Washington, Washing-ton, D.C. under sponsorship of the Corcoran Gallery of Art on April t 3, 1968. They will be shown in Kingsbury Hall on May 20, 25 and X 31. The University screening will j be the first on any college campus, said Paul Cracroft, director of lec-: lec-: tures and concerts at the Univer- sity, and Dennis Phillips, director of Phillips Gallery, who have combined com-bined the resources to co-sponsor the films locally. "The Kinetic Art" will play in New York's Philharmonic Hall in July as a part of the Lincoln Center Summer Festival. "Imagine that," laughed Phillips, "Salt Lake City's movie buffs can see these films before they're shown in New York! How often does that happen?" 1000 Entries The 26 films included in the three-part three-part program were selected from a field of over 1000 entries by Brant Sloan, a former West Coast filmmaker. film-maker. They represent the work of artists from eight countries. Only On-ly one American, Jordan Belson, has films in "Kinetic." They are "Phenomena," and "Samadhi." Both will be shown in the first part of the program. "Phenomena" is a series of color episodes linking kaleidoscope changes of color with electronic rock music. "Samadhi" represents the culmination of the trilogy, be-binning be-binning with a theme that suggests t v. . - . ; - : David Ilockney, a London pop artist, surveys the London scene along with Julie Christie, the Rolling Stones, and Michael Caine in "Tonight Let's All Make Love in London," one of the 26 films from eight countries included in "The Kinetic Art," the three-program film series which will open May 20 at Kingsbury Hall. Series On Kinetic Art To Be Featured May 20, 25, 31 Films of the same pattern will mark the second and third programs, pro-grams, the sponsors indicated. A highlight of Program Two will be British Peter Whitehead's mock-heroic mock-heroic "Tonight Let's Make Love in London." The film will feature Michael Caine, Julie Christie, novelist nov-elist Edno O'Brien, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, and Eric Burdon and the Animals and Alan Ginsberg. Tickets will be on sale at Phillips Gallery, at the Lectures and Concerts Con-certs office, Annex 1164, and at the door. General admission singles will cost $1.50, University students $1.25; series tickets will cost $i for general admission and $3 for j students. I (Continued from Page 1) Film School in Germany; Hungarian Hungar-ian Istvan Ventilla's "Miracle," and a very short, short, short "Happiness" "Hap-piness" (lasting less than one minute) min-ute) will also be shown. The final films in the first part will include: "Gavotte" by Walerin Borowczyk; "Rakvickarna" by Jan Svankmajer of Prague (this film won the Golden Ducat of the Mannheim Mann-heim Festival) ; "Elegia" by Zoltan Huszarik of Budapest won the Grand Prize at the Oberhausen Film Festival; and "Cruel Diagonals" Diagon-als" by Vlatko Filipovic of Sarajevo. Sara-jevo. , Critic Cooke said of "Cruel Diagonal," Di-agonal," if you hate war and love children as who doesn't? defy you to see it and not cry. Exquisitely Exquisite-ly conceived and achieved." |
