Fluxfilms

Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all.

8mm film with a man swimming across the sea in Nice.

"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures of texts like: 'silence, genius at work' and 'ich liebe dich.' The end credit is 'Television décollage, Cologne, 1963."

In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light, occasionally altered by the appearance of scratches and dust particles in the surface of the damaged film material.

A film of flickering photographs taken from various Sears Catalogues.

Featuring a hypnotic illusion using two black-and-white sets of dots.

A closeup of a hand using a razor to slit a wrist, flickering by alternating between positive and negative frames.

"INVOCATION is Higgins' Satie movie... the purest attempt to clear art from any or all historical, esthetic, thematic, ornamental claptrap to regain the lost-eye consciousness." - Jonas Mekas

Prestype on clear film measuring tape, 10ft. length. No camera. At the end of every foot of film numbers appear, 1, 2, etc to 10

Numerals on clear film from 1 to 1000."

Begins with a picture of Marilyn Monroe, then shifts to a female body, shot from belly button down, which is wriggling under piles of cellophane.

Begins with a shot of a demarcation line on an asphalt tennis court. A hand points to the distant landscape, then numbers 408 and 409 appear on a female torso. The female then passes different decorated plastic hot dogs, banana shapes suggestively between her legs, through her armpits, etc. Ends with an egg floating on water.

Begins with a picture of Marilyn Monroe, then shifts to a female body, shot from belly button down, which is wriggling under piles of cellophane.

Danish performance artist Eric Andersen, associated since the early 1960s with the Fluxus art movement, describes his film as a montage of "single frame exposures, color, different image each frame, various items in the room, etc."

Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc., on clear film. No camera.

This is fluxfilm No. 21 and without a title

Color test strip from developing tank.

Single frame exposures of words, color.

Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall.

John Cale's film, also known as "Fluxfilm No. 31", presents a silent and underexposed one-minute sequence of blinking lights on a police car shot at night in a New York City neighborhood.

Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.

Following a series of title cards, a man in sun glasses briefly flutters his hands like fairy wings.

A handful of rocks and chestnuts falling, filmed with high speed camera.

This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.

A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression.

Flicker: White and black alternating frames.

Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion.

Word & number gag, no camera.

Time counter, in seconds and minutes.

A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is projected at normal speed, 24 frames per second, thus creating a slow-motion effect.

In her Fluxus short film "No. 1" (a.k.a. "Match" or "Fluxfilm No. 14: One"), Yoko Ono breaks down a realization of her own piece written in 1955, "Lighting Piece: light a match and watch till it goes out." Fire dies, life is short.

Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other.

A smooth linear transition from white, through greys to black, produced in developing tank. The "door sign" ENTRANCE fades in, white letters on the black background, stays for a few seconds, then slowly fades into white. Five-minute fade into black and the title EXIT, which stays for a few seconds then fades into white.

Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers.

Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame.

Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject.