3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

(1978)

6 minutes

16mm

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description

Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied by the sound of a Shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute), the film is an exercise in the visual perception of motion and mathematical structure.


festival awards
  • Bellevue Film Festival, Bellevue,WA (1978)
  • Athens International Film Festival, Athens,OH (1979)li>
  • Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Nashville,TN (1979)
  • New York Independent Filmmakers Exposition, New York,NY (1980)

selected installations

2014

Sadler's Wells, London, UK

Unfold to Centre, a dance performance choreographed by Yolande Yorke-Edgell incorporated 3/78.


2007

Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC

Visual Music exhibition included 3/78 installation.