Fluxus Movies

This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.

Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other.

Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion.

A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is...

Flicker: White and black alternating frames.

"Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."

Color test strip from developing tank.

Mary Bauermeister is considered the mother of the Fluxus movement. In an attic on Cologne's Lintgasse, she made art history in the early 1960s...

This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in...

A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression.

In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light,...

Features entrance and exit door signs, fading through black and white.

Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film. No camera.

Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject.

Single frame exposures of words.

Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.

A handful of rocks and chestnuts falling, filmed with high speed camera.

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers.

X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking.