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CVM
Collections: Access and Distribution of Films and Videos
CVM provides access to Visual Music, abstract cinema and experimental
animation through a variety of activities. This page provides information
on:
- Curated Film
Programs: Oskar Fischinger, Mary Ellen Bute, Baerbel Neubauer,
Legendary Light Shows, and NEW Essential Visual Music Program
- Online Store
(research copies on video and DVD)
- Selected print rentals
and archival loans
- On-site Research
- Licensing
for Museum Exhibition
For Other Information
on Special Collections (Paper, Monograph and other materials), please
visit our Collections
and Archives page. For research material, you may wish to start
with our Online
Library.
1. Curated Film Programs available
for booking
Oskar Fischinger Retrospective
: Optical Poetry

- Featuring 35mm
prints of Fischinger's classic visual music films, including Allegretto,
Study No. 6, Study No. 7, Radio Dynamics, Composition in Blue, Motion
Painting No. 1, Kreise, American March, Spirals, Coloratura, Spiritual
Constructions, Walking from Munich to Berlin, and others. Most
are preserved or new prints. Provided in association with the Fischinger
Archive. Includes prints preserved by Academy Film Archive, Center
for Visual Music and Fischinger Archive, with the support of Film
Foundation, Sony, Cinémathèque québécoise and Deutsches Filmmuseum.
- Program is approx. 70 minutes, 35mm
Rental is subject
to conditions including the screening of the complete show, with no
re-ordering or re-assembling. Qualified institutions must certify that
they do not use a platter projection system and are capable of archival
projection standards. See bottom of page for notes on qualified institutions.*
The prints are generally not rented separately. This program cannot
be provided on video or DVD.
Essential
Visual Music: Rare Classics - NEW
Program, May 2008
From German pioneers
to Light Show psychedelia to Experimental Animation classics, rare
and preseved prints from the Center for Visual Music Archive.
Includes films by Oskar and Hans Fischinger, Charles
Dockum, Jules Engel, Mary Ellen Bute, light show films and more. 16mm.
Please read the full
program description
Jordan
Belson Program - more information soon
Mary
Ellen Bute Program (16mm)
Includes all of
Bute's Abstract Films. Known for her pioneering early abstract films
(some of which were screened regularly at Radio City Music Hall, New
York in the 1930s), and one of the first artists to use oscilloscopes,
she is also known for her collaborations with Norman McLaren and Leon
Theremin, among others. Program features all of her short abstract
films. 16mm prints. Rhythm in Light, 1934; Synchromy
No. 2, 1935; Dada, 1936; Parabola, 1937; Escape,
1937; Spook Sport (with animation by Norman McLaren), 1939;
Tarantella, 1940; Polka Graph, 1947; Color
Rhapsody, 1948; Imagination, 1948; New Sensations in
Sound, 1949 (RCA Commercial); Pastorale, 1950; Abstronic,
1952 and Mood Contrasts. Organized by CVM, in association with
Cecile Starr and Women's Independent Film Exchange. 16mm. Recently
screened in Los Angeles and Chicago.
Legendary
Light Shows (16mm and
video)

Flashback to the
1960's with a program of rarely seen film and video by legendary light
show artists from San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles: Glenn
McKay, Tony Martin, Elias Romero, Joshua White, Single Wing Turquoise
Bird, Jud Yalkut and others, plus the light show finale excerpt from
David Lebrun's Hog Farm Movie. Featuring light, color and liquid
projections layered with film and handmade slides, originally performed
live at rock concerts. Selections from this program were featured
in the 2005 US exhibition "Visual Music" at the Hirshhorn Museum and
MOCA LA. This program screened at the Rotterdam International Film
Festival, 2006, and in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts. Program approx. one hour. 16mm and video.

Legendary
Light Show images - Top, courtesy Elias Romero, Joshua White, Tony
Martin. Bottom, from Single Wing Turquoise Bird, courtesy Peter Mays

Baerbel
Neubauer Program
Time
and Tides - Music Paintings by Baerbel Neubauer
(35mm and DVD, 75 min. program)
- Featuring 35mm
prints of Neubauer's direct on film animations (approx 26 minutes):
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Algorithmen (1994, 3:17)
Falter-Spot 7 (1994, 0:30)
Roots (1996, 3:40)
Mondlicht (Moonlight) (1997, 4:11)
Holiday (1998, 4:30)
Feuerhaus (Firehouse) (1998, 5:20)
Passage (2002, 8:02)
- Plus an excerpt
from her new work-in-progress Morphs of Pegasus, a computer
3D "motion painting in image and sound," (20 min) and
- Flockenspiel
I-IV (2004, DVD): ...an associative journey from 2D to 3D through
abstract digital images and music. The images were digitally handpainted
with brushes of colours, forms and effects. (BN). The Soundtrack for
Flockenspiel III was also painted digitally. 25 minutes, screened
on DVD. Gallery
of Flockenspiel images
- New work will
be added in mid-2008
NOTE: The 35mm
prints may be rented as a separate program, without Flockenspiel. As
of February 2008, Algorithmen is only available digitally, not currently
on 35mm.
Other
Programs
Also see our previous
programs including:
Visual
Music 1 (screened at MOCA)
Visual
Music 2 (screened at Filmforum)
Color
Organ lecture and
screening (recently presented at British Film Institute,
London)
Booking
inquiries: Email Center
for Visual Music
Please provide
details including whether your organization is a nonprofit or for-profit
organization; date(s) and number of screenings requested; size of
screening room (seats). Please note, we do not rent to individuals,
only to qualified organizations.* We cannot provide these curated
programs for exhibition on DVD (except Neubauer's new film Flockenspiel).
For other recent Visual
Music programs curated and presented by CVM, please see our Screenings
page
2.
Online Store
CVM's
online Store offers
Research Copies of films on video and DVD. These are for private home
use or classroom use only, and most may not be exhibited publicly for
a paying audience, or used in museum exhibitions or public screenings
without additional permissions, fees and/or licenses. Please inquire
if you wish to obtain permission for additional uses. These DVDs, videos
and books are also available for purchase via telephone, or at our downtown
Los Angeles offices.
3. Print loans and rentals
Under certain conditions,
CVM provides access to selected prints from our preservation projects
through rentals to qualified institutions. Some of these include:
- 16mm titles by
Jules Engel (Accident, Three Arctic Flowers, Celebration, Mobiles,
Play Pen, Times Square, others)
- Charles Dockum
films (1952 Mobilcolor Performance at the Guggenheim, and 1966
Mobilcolor Documentary and Performance films)
- John Stehura's
Cibernetik 5.3 (currently available only on videotape or DVD)
4.
On-Site Research
Viewing copies (on
video or dvd) of many films are available for onsite study by researchers
and scholars at CVM's offices in downtown Los Angeles in the Gallery
Row Arts District. Please email or call for an appointment.
CVM does not make or provide dubs of these research copies; please see
our online Store for available titles.
5. Licensing
for Museum Exhibition
and Installation
Certain films may
be licensed under very specific
conditions, subject to copyright holder and/or artist approval.
Please provide complete details
of your exhibition including description of the gallery space planned
for exhibiting films or digital media (what else will be in this space?
are there black or white walls? lighting levels? etc.); type of projection
and screen, type of projector, or type of monitor; plans for avoiding
light and sound leaks; list of other planned films in the exhibition;
full list of venues and dates, licensing fee budgeted. We cannot process
requests without all of the above information. Email to
cvmaccess (at) gmail.com
Please note that
many requests are declined by the copyright holders due to insufficient
information, unacceptable spaces, or lack of preparation time.
More about CVM's
Collections
and Archives
Please direct all
inquiries to
Center
for Visual Music
Via email: CVM
Via phone (downtown Los Angeles office) 213-683-1514
*Qualified institutions include
FIAF archives, venues capable of archival projection, and institutions
which have previously rented programs from us without damage to any
films. Please email for further information.
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