Film Record: Abstract Patterns

Still from Abstract Patterns. Image via Chicago Film Archives

Identifier:

• F.2005-02-0061 (Source: chicagofilmarchive.org )

Date produced: 1969

Filmmaker(s):

Sol Falon

Country of Production:

United States

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:02:47

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Colour

Sound Notes:

Optical

Awards/Recognition:

PSA Ten Best 1969 - Honorable Mention; Chicago Film Archives list of titled amateur work; The film was selected by Voice Of America for part of a television movie to be shown in over 50 foreign countries.

Description:

"Abstract Patterns is a two-minute abstract film by Sol Falon of Teaneck, N.J. - a beautiful "shorty" of color and design that is fast moving and stimulating" PSA Journal, Nov. 1969, 56; "A short amateur experimental film featuring mid-century paintings from Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kadinsky, Piet Mondrianand Joan Miro. Disributed by the Society of Amateur Cinematographers (SAC)." Chicago Film Archives

Resources:

PSA Journal, Nov. 1969, 53. Part of the Ron Doerring Collection held by Chicago Film Archives

Was official selection at the 1971 Annecy Film Festival.

Was entered into the 1972 Canadian International Film Festival but did not win any prizes.

Subjects:

• Arts
•      Motion pictures
•           Abstract films

Genre:

• Experimental

Form:

• Short

Repository:

Ron Doerring Collection, Chicago Film Archives

Video Link:

• chicagofilmarchives.org

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