Natural Selection (1984) by Larry Gottheim
Saturday, April 14, 1984, 8:00 pm
Larry Gottheim: Natural Selection
The filmmaker will be present
Larry Gottheim will appear in person with his newest film, Natural Selection. He will follow the film with a talk entitled “Free Vibrations in the Space between Work and Music, Sound and Image.” The talk will involve selections from earlier films (Elective Affinities: Mouches Volantes, Four Shadows, etc.) and other material relating to his ideas about sound cinema.
Natural Selection, 1984, 35 min.; “The film is grounded in a body of material shot in 1981-82, in a cooperative creative venture… I observed and listened closely to the meaning-laden elements sift and sediment, eddy and spiral, let them evolve into five constellations, each cohering around selected phrases from Darwin.”
Larry Gottheim has a long-standing interest in utilizing new modes of composing with sound and image film material. His films have been included in two Whitney Biennial Film programs.