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James & John WhitneyBy Kyle Krivitsky & Morgan LibrukFILM344 PresentationThursday, March 15, 2012
+James Whitney (1921-1982)
Filmmaker Abstract cinema Classics in visual music Spent life in LA Studied painting, traveled in England before WWII Ceramics & pottery After 1946, became interested in spiritual aspects that
influenced later work Alchemy Jiddu Krishnamurti (psychological revolution, nature of mind,
meditation, human relationships, positive change) Jungian psychology (integrate unconscious
forces/motivations) Tao Yoga
+John Whitney (1917-1995)
Animator, composer, inventor Computer animation California Pomona College studied music & photography in England First works movies of lunar eclipse with homemade telescope 1937-38 spent in Paris studying twelve-tone composition Returned to America in 1939 & began collaborating with James
on abstract films 1960 – Motion Graphics Inc., mechanical analogue computer
Design templates placed on different layers of rotating tables & photographed by multiple-axis rotating cameras creation of simultaneous motions
1970s – faster digital processes 1980s-90s – audio-visual composition program called “Whitney-
Reed RDTD (Radius-Differential Theta Differential)” digital harmony
+Filmography
James Whitney “Variations on a Circle” (1941-1942) “Yantra” (1950-1957) “Lapis” (1963-1966)
“Twenty-Four Variations on an Original Theme” (1939-1940)
“Film Exercises” (1934-1944) Series of five (James 2-4, John 1 & 5) Prize for best sound (1949) at Brussels Experimental Film
Competition
+The Whitney Brothers Legacy
Experimental filmmaking
Recognized power of computers Abstract art Hypnosis Indian sitar music Kaleidoscope Multiple angles Oscillation Trance
+Links
“Lapis” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzniaKxMr2g
“Film Exercise #1” http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=kuZbgM8yxtY&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLB247FE10BCEBC67B
“Yantra” http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=nvWwlZSXaR0&feature=related
+References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitney_(filmmaker)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whitney_(animator)
http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/profile/whitney/early.html
http://blog.unl.edu/dixon/2011/09/14/john-and-james-whitney/