16mm

Whereas most other digital computer films are characterised by linear trajectile figures moving dynamically in simulated three-dimensional space, the VanDerBeek-Knowlton Poem Fields are complex, syncretistic two-dimensional tapestries of geometrical configurations in mosaic patterns. “The mind is a computer,” says VanDerBeek, “not railroad tracks. Human intelligence functions on the order of a hundred-thousand decisions per second.” It appears this brain capacity was a prime motive in the production of the Poem Fields, whose micro-patterns seem to permutate in a constant process of metamorphosis which could very likely include a hundred-thousand minuscule changes each second. (Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema)

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: Expanded Cinema: A Tribute to Gene Youngblood’s Book 1