Divinations

Divinations
Divinations

1964, USA, 16mm, colour, sound, 6 min.

The music is a ritual chant of Maori medicine man and Sicilian tarantella on Jews harp. A film poem that records a psychic event in colour, shape and sound. The inner eye reveals its visionary powers through a series of mystical signs and symbols, a collage of negative and positive images, incantations and sorcery.

…I wanted badly to make an animated short and had no camera available. I did have some old, unused film stock and several roles of 16mm sound tape. So I used that - plus a variety of discarded surgical instruments and the sharp edge of a screwdriver - by cutting, etching, and painting directly on both film and tape.

Storm De Hirsch