Myron Ort, filmmaker, painter, musician, composer, repairer of antique cuban drums, restorer of vintage cars and expert on Latin-American music, talks to H2EEF about his unique film works. Spanning most forms of experimental practice and heavily influenced by the 60s psychedelic scene and Gestalt psychology, using hand painted film, multi-exposure films, film portrait, found footage and more, Myron's work is really deserving of a wider audience. In this first part of our discussion, we discuss the influences of the 60s Bay Area scene on the filmmaker's work and in particular his psychedelic films and the film that Stan Brakhage referred to as "the most worked on hand painted film I've ever seen!" OMMO.
You can find his wondrous array of work on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/myronort
On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ZenOkeanos
and on his own website, where you can buy his collected films on DVD along with his paintings!:
Filmmakers & artists discussed in this episode include
Barbara Hammer
Steven Zailian
Stan Brakhage
Jordan Belson
James Broughton
Bruce Baillie
Ben Van Meter
Chick Strand
Sidney Peterson
Wassily Kandinsky
Len Lye
Man Ray
Jean Cocteau
Standish Lawder
Fernand Leger
Harold Gregor
Donna Germain
Peter Kubelka
Writers discussed include:
Aldous Huxley
Hoyt Sherman
Rudolf Arnheim
Wolfgang Köhler
Siegfried Kracauer
