{"id":6279,"date":"2009-11-02T03:59:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T02:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6279"},"modified":"2009-11-02T03:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T02:59:43","slug":"berlin-horse-and-marvo-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/11\/02\/berlin-horse-and-marvo-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Horse and Marvo Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/film\/legrice_berlin.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/legrice.jpg\" alt=\"legrice.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two experimental films by British filmmakers. <em>Berlin Horse<\/em> (1970) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/film\/legrice_berlin.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuweb<\/a> is a hypnotic piece of minimalism by Malcolm Le Grice who subjects found footage of exercising horses to a series of loopings and filterings that push the degraded images to a point of textured abstraction. Of note with this film is the equally minimal and repetitive score, a piano loop created by Brian Eno. This was before he gained prominence as a member of Roxy Music but the slight piece of experimentation points the way to his post-Roxy career and his ambient investigations. <em>Berlin Horse<\/em> is available on DVD from <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.lux.org.uk\/index.php\/dvd\/lux-dvds\/afterimages-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lux<\/a>, with a selection of Le Grice&#8217;s other shorts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europafilmtreasures.eu\/FT\/336\/about-the-film-marvo_movie\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/keen.jpg\" alt=\"keen.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Marvo Movie<\/em> (1967) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europafilmtreasures.eu\/FT\/336\/about-the-film-marvo_movie\" target=\"_blank\">Europa Film Treasures<\/a> is a typically frenetic work by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinoblatz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Keen<\/a>, four minutes of heavily cut-up sound and vision with collage, animation and multiple exposures throughout. Despite the year of its creation, the effect is less psychedelic and more like an amphetamine rush.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MLeGrice\" target=\"_blank\">Malcolm Le Grice at YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/kinoblatz\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Keen at YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two experimental films by British filmmakers. Berlin Horse (1970) at Ubuweb is a hypnotic piece of minimalism by Malcolm Le Grice who subjects found footage of exercising horses to a series of loopings and filterings that push the degraded images to a point of textured abstraction. Of note with this film is the equally minimal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/11\/02\/berlin-horse-and-marvo-movie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Berlin Horse and Marvo Movie&#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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,52,7,3],"tags":[145,781,780,6980,119],"class_list":["post-6279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-cinema","category-animation","category-film","category-music","tag-brian-eno","tag-jeff-keen","tag-malcolm-le-grice","tag-roxy-music","tag-ubuweb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Dh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279","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=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}