{"id":21936,"date":"2022-08-17T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=21936"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:30:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:30:44","slug":"om-i-a-film-by-myron-ort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/08\/17\/om-i-a-film-by-myron-ort\/","title":{"rendered":"OM I, a film by Myron Ort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ort1-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ort1.jpg\" alt=\"ort1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As should be evident from the stills, <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/220990442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>OM I<\/em><\/a> is yet another example of psychedelic cinema, and a very good one at that. Myron Ort&#8217;s 20-minute silent film (add your own soundtrack) originates with experiments the director made in the late 60s and early 70s using hand-painted stock combined with optical printing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ort2-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ort2.jpg\" alt=\"ort2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film isn&#8217;t wholly abstract\u2014the raw material includes shots of people and animals, together with heavily processed military footage\u2014but the processing creates a kaleidoscopic feel by mirroring many of the shots, one of those simple tricks that&#8217;s always effective. (For a more recent example of mirrored psychedelia, see the monochrome mushroom freakout in <em>A Field in England<\/em>.) There&#8217;s a lot more like this at <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/myronort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Myron Ort&#8217;s Vimeo page<\/a> including two sequels to <em>OM I<\/em>, and a related film <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/221130330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ommo<\/em><\/a>, which runs hand-painted raw material through the optical printer to delirious effect.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-abstract-cinema-archive\/\">The abstract cinema archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As should be evident from the stills, OM I is yet another example of psychedelic cinema, and a very good one at that. Myron Ort&#8217;s 20-minute silent film (add your own soundtrack) originates with experiments the director made in the late 60s and early 70s using hand-painted stock combined with optical printing. The film isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/08\/17\/om-i-a-film-by-myron-ort\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OM I, a film by Myron Ort&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: OM I, a film by Myron Ort","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,7,17],"tags":[12399],"class_list":["post-21936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-cinema","category-film","category-psychedelia","tag-myron-ort"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5HO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}