Movies: Shapes

  • 1938
    An Optical Poem

    An Optical Poem (1938)

    An Optical Poem

    6.71938HD

    A dance of shapes. A title card tells us this is an experiment in conveying the mental images of music in a visual form. Liszt's "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" is the music. The shapes, all two-dimensional, are circles primarily, with some squares and r...

    An Optical Poem
  • 1998
    Stargames

    Stargames (1998)

    Stargames

    2.21998HD

    A young space prince on the run from an evil space villain, stranded on Earth and waiting for his grandfather the king to rescue him, befriends an Earth child named Brian and together they evade robots, bears, and triangles....

    Stargames
  • 1940
    Tarantella

    Tarantella (1940)

    Tarantella

    5.61940HD

    Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials (visual and aural) are subject to any conceivable interrelation and modification....

    Tarantella
  • 2010
    Mamori

    Mamori (2010)

    Mamori

    4.82010HD

    Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals and of the celluloid itself have been transformed through the filmmaker’s artistry. The raw material o...

    Mamori
  • 1995
    The Shape of Space

    The Shape of Space (1995)

    The Shape of Space

    01995HD

    During the 1995 Summer Institute at The Geometry Center, a team of undergraduates, middle and high school mathematics teachers and Center staff developed curriculum materials supporting The Shape of Space video. The team developed a comprehensive cur...

    The Shape of Space
  • 2022
    Shapes - Variation III

    Shapes - Variation III (2022)

    Shapes - Variation III

    02022HD

    Excerpt from Dr. Malcom J Backer's Hyperexpiology Companion [revision 2b]: "...the destructive system is self replicating and self propelling . Functioning like a clock . Systematically . Efficiently . Relentlessly . A mindless machine. It will neve...

    Shapes - Variation III
  • 2020
    The GO Train: Sound Visualized in Shapes

    The GO Train: Sound Visualized in Shapes (2020)

    The GO Train: Sound Visualized in Shapes

    02020HD

    The GO Train entering and leaving Rutherford Station....

    The GO Train: Sound Visualized in Shapes
  • 1990
    Not Knot

    Not Knot (1990)

    Not Knot

    01990HD

    Not Knot is a guided tour into computer-animated hyperbolic space. It proceeds from the world of knots to their complementary spaces -- what's not a knot. Profound theorems of recent mathematics show that most known complements carry the structure of...

    Not Knot