Description
Both psychedelic and avant-garde, this film is a series of experiments that Oe Masanori undertook by using a dark black leader and scratching it. The title refers to the format of a looping film while numbers indicate the visual experiment. Oe created three versions to test how the effect would differ depending on the length. Oe recollects: “It was the era of the psychedelic movement. Not only LSD but marijuana was rather normalized in that time. So, within that, some watched while high on marijuana. The line would stimulate then and move in different ways. It was interesting as a visual experiment. It’s only one line, but different phenomenon would begin to occur. It was a meditative time, in a way. . . . You could also experience it simply as a visual phenomenon. It had both aspects. It was the time when I started be in the psychedelic movement.”—Oe Masanori, interview by Go Hirasawa and Hiroko Tasaka, 2017.
Creation Date
1966
Format
16mm
Color