epimage09915 (September 12, 2008 at 5:36 am)

i'm a freshmen film major at ithaca, and we watched this in our intro to film class. i'm addicted

germboy123 (August 13, 2008 at 4:25 am)

is this the original sound track ment for all the films?

iannagoski (July 29, 2008 at 4:27 am)

by all means, turn off the sound and put on Meet the Beatles. Teiji Ito's soundtrack is wonderful, but Meet the Beatles is so much better.

sayhitoderty (May 9, 2008 at 12:16 am)

harry smith is a genius. i wish i could find this on dvd. ive searched everywhere and cant find it :[

alpswissart (April 6, 2008 at 11:10 pm)

great the combination of sound and visualisation in abstraction.

MaurizioB89 (February 5, 2008 at 3:31 pm)

Amazing!

GhengisJung (January 25, 2008 at 4:31 pm)

Teiji Ito made the music for this. He also made the music for Maya Deren's film Meshes in the Afternoon - the soundtrack of which is (or was) available on CD.

bambicloud (January 22, 2008 at 4:11 pm)

Rad! Sight/Sound perfection!

hissflash (December 13, 2007 at 11:30 am)

who made the music for this film, does anybody know about it. besdides i am truly amazed of how harry smith used his inspiration from the 20s experimental cinema movement in europe, by the way i am a big fan of richter, eggeling and ruttmann, really interesting to see the symbolism and his interest for the occult. the narration is fabalous as well.

friendsofthefruitsof (November 18, 2007 at 4:25 am)

yes Bess is great and was not an abstractionist at all but a visionary who was painting his visions at life size. a recorder of what he saw not a maker or creator of what he thought. But his images in no way were advanced ahead of their time in a pictorial manner. Currently there is a fellow here in JApan who is drawing newspapers and chicken wire in the most amazing detail. Not trying to be On Kawara, John Cage or any of the Dada or 50s-70s conceptualists