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Lines: Horizontal (1962)
Relaxing Experimental and Mathematical Film
Lines: Horizontal is a movie made by etching lines directly onto film, like its sister Lines: Vertical. The entire movie consists of horizontal lines dancing in various mathematical patterns to beautiful music, and is a relaxing (and sometimes exciting) experience. As you can probably guess, Lines: Vertical is much the same except with vertical lines and different music.
Lines: Horizontal, in my opinion, has better music than Lines: Vertical. These two movies were later combined into Mosaic, by the same director. While interesting, Mosaic lacks the charms and beautiful musical accompaniment of the two Lines', making Lines: Horizontal my favorite out of the bunch.
Danse carrée (1961)
Exactly What the Title Suggests
Dance Squared is a whirlwind of dancing squares, rectangles and triangles moving in beautiful patterns to a piece of folk dance music which, I believe, was recorded live at a folk festival in Canada many years back.
The movie's premise is very basic. Shapes move around the screen, combining with each other and breaking apart to form red squares, blue triangles and yellow rectangles. These individual shapes dance throughout the movie in patterns that resemble various folk dances as seen from above. Of course, being animated and simple figures, they can move much faster than a human being---on average, I believe that the shapes move at twice a normal dancer's speed---making this movie very exciting to watch.