Friday 21 November 2008, 19.00

The films and videos in this programme use colour in swathes, lines, bits, or frame-by-frame, engaging every portion of the screen. They involve abstract paradigms related to painterly aesthetics, weaving and digital synthesis. The animation, flicker and modulation of fields and frames of colour create experiences that are vivid and distinctly phenomenal.

Walther Ruttmann, Opus II-IV, Germany 1923-25, 10'

Oskar Fischinger, Motion Painting no.1,USA 1947, 11'

Len Lye, Color Cry, USA 1952-53, 3'

Rose Lowder, Parcelle, France 1979, 3'

Paul Sharits, Ray Gun Virus, USA 1966, 14'

Peter Donebauer, Entering, UK 1974, 8'   

Stephen Beck, Video Weavings, USA 1976, 9'

reMI, uta zet, Austria 2001, 5'   

Bas van Koolwijk, Five, Netherlands 2002, 3'

Tina Frank, Chronomops, Austria 2005, 3'

Simon Payne, New Ratio, UK 2007, 2'  

Programme duration approx 71 min

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Rothko exhibition