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Show Kinetic orf: Coors, spAeres 0&, dart to Indian musk Clever" would be more the adjective to describe the rest of the series of short films, said to be the best-produced underground m world in the past two years. Cleverness can indeed be entertaining, enter-taining, but some of the films were art in the sense that a cartoon, car-toon, comedy or farce with social commentary is art. Without underlying thought-provoking inferences, in-ferences, they would border on being gimmicky, but as they were they were extremely well-done. Pharoahs and Insects There were some important exceptions to the above. "Egypt, 0 Egypt," a subtitled documentary docu-mentary on how the insects have outsurvived the Egyptian pharoahs, and on how the pharoahs planned tn TP turn fi-Am rjY RICHARD ROMNEY Entertainment Editor The screen is engulfed by ! ing multi-colored spheres 'and darting around and ZS and over you. Colors i Lae and flash and whirl as the : Jeres continue their pendulum-,;e pendulum-,;e beat, while Indian music gls through the background, id the circular, moving ob-;s ob-;s a stranger appears-a square is hazily, then you catch a jjjpse of a man playing an in-inwient, in-inwient, huddled over yet : mother sphere-this one of hiome, reflecting the other ' s. He fades out as you reach loi him, and you only catch oc-i oc-i .-jsional glimpses after that. It's a ' jne of trying to get a clear shot i af him, to figure out who he !j4ut you never succeed. Kinetics in Motion Thus, with the best film of the jjil, artistically speaking (there lite others more entertaining or thought-provoking), the audience os introduced to "Kinetic Art, Series Two," Tuesday at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Kinetic refers to the energy produced by motion. Kinetic art, em, would be art in motion. ( "Music with Balls," the film de-iribed de-iribed above, certainly fits the Ascription, and perhaps that is tfy it was chosen as the bearing be-aring film for Program One of ii series. death, looking on it as a glorious thing, was shown to audiences for the first time in this series. "The Room" was an animated story of all the things that go on in a room-and when you think about it, that's quite a bit. "Zahrada (The Wall)," a Czecho-slovakian Czecho-slovakian epic, shows a human wall surrounding a farm, and how the members came to stand, hand in hand, without moving. Sophisticated Skinflick The highlight of absurdity was a sophisticated skinflick about a photographer who loses his wife in a car wreck, and sets out to find a replacement. Throughout this extravaganza, women were peeling their clothing off, and unpleasant things (like police cars) kept exploding in balls of fire. The show ended when the hero, who squashed a meter patrolman with his jeep, was shot with a bazooka. Certainly more than just amusing, the films shown Tuesday night had several common characteristicsthey charac-teristicsthey were all novel, all entertaining, all uninhibited. If you like that type of art, you'd have loved the films. The audience Tuesday night certainly did. Tremendously Gross If not, you would have found at least two of the shows tremendously tremen-dously gross. They have no restrictions, restric-tions, and while certainly well-filmed, well-filmed, easily objectionable to the moral-minded. Programs Two and Three of the series will be presented Thursday and Friday in the Art and Architecture Archi-tecture Center Auditorium, at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. each night. Price is $1.25 for a single night, $2 for both. |