Five Film Exercises: Film 5(1944)

movie - first aired/released 1944-07-31 - 7 min

Animation

Directed by James Whitney, John Whitney Sr.

Opens with a short canonical statement of a theme upon which the entire film is constructed. The canon is repeated in contrasting variations by means of color. A second section poses the same image in deep film space. The image unfolds itself repeatedly, leaving the receding image to continue on smaller and smaller. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.