Denise Gallant / Synopsis Video (ca. 1981–1983)
“Audio”
Denise Gallant / Synopsis Video (ca. 1981–1983)
Rainbow
Denise Gallant / Synopsis demo (ca. 1981–1983)
Video effects — colorization
Denise Gallant (Synopsis, ca. 1981–1983)
Demo reel excerpt from Synopsis, a defunct Los Angeles-based production company founded in the early 1980s by video synth designer and artist Denise Gallant. Some of you may already be familiar with her video for Steve Roach’s Snow canon (1983).
Roberto Chavez, animation
What is music (1968)
I’ll give Roberto Chavez the benefit of the doubt and wager that the swastika collaged over the heart-shaped box of chocolates signifies the decline of Western civilization … or something like that. (Keep in mind this film was intended for children.) I’ll also wager that, based on the recurrence of the psychopath in a hockey mask (@ 00:12 in this excerpt), Roberto Chavez is the subversive talent behind some of the virtuosic displays in Frame by frame: the art of animation (1973), featured earlier here. If you have more info on Roberto Chavez or can identify the music, please get in touch!
“Here is some music from other parts of the world….”
What is music (excerpt)
Pieter Van Deusen (1968)
animation, Roberto Chavez
What is music (excerpt)
Pieter Van Deusen (1968)
Percussionists: Barry Silverman, Phill Lehrman, Todd Miller, Eric Remsen
What is music (excerpt)
Pieter Van Deusen (1968)
2nd cameraman: Les Blank, rest in peace
Performers: children from the University Elementary School, UCLA
Filmed by the same crew who brought us Percussion sounds (1968).
Transferred from a faded 16mm print on a shoddy telecine, as is often the case.
Herman Slobbe / Blind kind 2
Johan van der Keuken (1966, Netherlands)
In remembrance of the late, great Johan van der Keuken (1938–2001), who would have turned 75 today, April 4.
