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KINETICA 3: HY HIRSH AND THE FIFTIES \/ JAZZ AND ABSTRACTION IN BEAT ERA FILM Kinetica 3<\/em> celebrates the San Francisco \u2018Beat Generation\u2019 film scene, with a special focus on abstract mystery-man Hy Hirsh. Hirsh was a professional cinematographer and technical innovator, his films combine elaborate layers of colourful images using home-made special effects. Much of his life is shrouded in mystery, but it is known that the last years of his life were spent in Paris, where he died of an apparent heart attack in 1961. Upon finding cannabis in one of his film cans, the French police impounded his films for many years.<\/p>\n Abstract Expressionism, Jazz, Zen and Beat Culture all come together in this selection of 1950s American abstract films, which features newly preserved prints of the rarely seen films of Hy Hirsh. The programme also includes rare works by his contemporaries Jordan Belson, Harry Smith, Mary Ellen Bute, Patricia Marx and the Whitney Brothers. Animations flow with the rhythm of jazz in the heady, smoky atmospheres of Bop City and late-night San Franciscan beatnik bars.<\/p>\n Robert Breer, A Man and His Dog Out for Air, 1957, 3 min<\/strong> The films of Hy Hirsh were preserved by The iotaCenter with a grant from The National Film Preservation Foundation, with additional support from The Academy Film Archive and The Whitney Museum of American Art. James Whitney\u2019s Yantra was preserved thanks to a grant from the NFPF. Thanks to the NFPF for their ongoing support of our preservation activities which made the presentation of many of these films possible.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINETICA 3: HY HIRSH AND THE FIFTIES \/ JAZZ AND ABSTRACTION IN BEAT ERA FILM Wednesday 2 July 2003, at 7pm London Other Cinema Kinetica 3 celebrates the San Francisco \u2018Beat Generation\u2019 film scene, with a special focus on abstract mystery-man Hy Hirsh. Hirsh was a professional cinematographer and technical innovator, his films combine elaborate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kinetica-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWednesday 2 July 2003, at 7pm
\nLondon Other Cinema<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n Hy Hirsh, Chasse des Touches, 1959, 4 min<\/strong>
\n Jordan Belson, Caravan, 1952, 4 min<\/strong>
\n Hy Hirsh, Eneri, 1953, 7 min<\/strong>
\n Patricia Marx, Things to Come, 1953, 3 min<\/strong>
\n Hy Hirsh, Autumn Spectrum, 1957, 7 min<\/strong>
\n Shirley Clarke, Bridges Go Round, 1958, 4 min<\/strong>
\n Mary Ellen Bute, Mood Contrasts, 1956, 7 min<\/strong>
\n Harry Smith, Film #3, 1949, 4 min<\/strong>
\n Hy Hirsh, Scratch Pad, 1961, 7 min<\/strong>
\n John Whitney, Sr., Catalog, 1961, 7 min<\/strong>
\n Jordan Belson, Mandala, 1953, 3 min<\/strong>
\n James Whitney, Yantra, 1957, 8 min<\/strong>
\n Hy Hirsh, Defense d\u2019Afficher, 1958, 8 min<\/strong>
\n Hy Hirsh, La Couleur de la Forme, 1961, 7 min<\/strong><\/p>\n