SILENT LIGHT

by Jim DAVIS

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THRU THE LOOKING GLASS 1953, 16mm, sound,LET THERE BE LIGHT 1956, 16mm, silent,THE SEA 1950, 16mm, silent,THE DREAM OF SPACE 1959, 16mm, silent,PATH OF MOTION 1950, 16mm, silent,VARIATIONS ON A THEME 1957, 16mm, silent

Jim Davis started making films in 1946 and continued until his death (completing 113 films) to photograph his curved plastic sculpture, mobile-like structures that would hang in space, rotate and reflect/refract light into shifting pools and points of color. Abstract and mysterious to many spectators, these waves and streams of light were for Davis images of -the causative force of nature. He also made studies of architecture and of landscape, as well filmed his paintings and drawings, but using movement and energy as a starting point. "This a kind of music made to be looked at - or a kind of abstract dance. There is a conscious attempt to invent forms which suggest - in wholly nonscientific terms - the new and unfamiliar world which modern science is revealing."
-Jim Davis

"Jim's films are a meditation on imagination of light."
-Stan Brakhage

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artist(s)	Jim DAVIS
Year	1953-1957
publishing date	0
publisher(s)	autoédition
DVD format	NTSC
zone	0 (region free)
running time (mins)	56
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