Friday, 19 March 2021

"Visual Variations on Noguchi" (1945) by Marie Menken

Film unfortunately unavailable.

By use of hand-held, ambulating camera, unusual editing and a startling experimental score by Lucille Dlugozewski, the sculptures of the famous Japanese-American artist, Isamu Noguchi, are given audacious movement in a controversial art-film experiment.
-- Cinema 16

Never before have I seen such purely dynamic treatment of sculpture in film. Marie Menken has successfully transformed Noguchi's sculpture into her own medium.
-- Norman McLaren

Excellent article by Shana MacDonald.