Late Superimpositions

US 1964. D: Harry Smith. Music: Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht: Mahagonny. 16mm, colour, sound, 29 min. Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 26 March 2008. Experimental object animation, traffic imagery, cattle farm imagery, Indian dances. Feeble start, gets stronger towards the end.

Heaven and Earth Magic

US 1962. D: Harry Smith. 16mm, b&w, 67 min. Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 26 March 2008. The haunting experimental animated feature based on images cut from old farmers' almanachs etc.

Early Abstractions

Early Abstractions #1-5, 7, 10. US 1939-1957, compiled in 1964. D: Harry Smith. 16mm, colour, silent, 23 min. The Meet The Beatles soundtrack version. Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 26 March 2008. A fascinating anthology of experimental animation, progressing into psychedelia and Indian mythology.