Great to see Harry Smith’s work here. Another one of my influences.❤

Some of this is so wildly unrestrained, unstructured, and so counter to anything I've ever seen to come out of the 1940s or '50s. It feels like something new made to look old.

Abstraction #1 comprises primarily of lines, simple shapes, and indescribable objects. This one advances at a far hastier pace than any other. You could compare this to cells. Abstraction #2 begins at 2:32 into the video, and is run at double the framerate. The visual style here is made up mostly of circles with the occasional four squares. Abstraction #3 begins at 4:43 into the video, and comprises of mostly rectangles in various forms such as the pound sign (#) or mosaic-like groups of them. Groups of concentric circles appear later on, but that is about it. Abstraction #4 begins at 8:04, and opens up on a live-action shot of some sort of psychedelic forest. The style for most of this is in black-and-white and comprises of realistically-moving circles and groups of rectangles. Halfway through we go to red rectangles while the circle remains white. Abstraction #5 begins at 10:58 in and comprises primarily of concentric rings and dots for its opening, progressing into calm sequences of squares and overlaid circles, as well as rings. Abstraction #7 (6, 8, and 9 are lost.) begins at 13:08 and comprises of circles, sharp triangles, and sun shapes as well as concentric lines that flip between vertical and horizontal. Abstraction #10 (The longest of the bunch) begins at 17:34 and is the most complex of them all, featuring cutouts of skeletons, crows, dolls, and even attempts at 3D combines with those same familiar basic shapes. It is full of religious symbolism and I'd say the freakiest of the lot.

To whoever chose the music: I LOVE YOU AND I DONT EVEN KNOW YOU. I THINK WE'RE SOULMATES

Harry Smith is not included in many lists of influential stop motion/stop animation artists. May the kaleidoscoping patterns be discovered by many.

holy shit. the music selection was so good, you nailed it man. Baphomet chilling out to Sun Ra inside a technicolor cube? yes indeed. thank you for sharing this!

I still like the idea he once used the "Meet The Beatles" album to sync to this.

This is Amazing! There was even the Crowley Goat inside. Also Great Soundtrack!

Thats how i feel sometimes with my adhd

Sun ra and acid

Outstanding. Despite the sometimes incongruous musical segues. Or maybe because of them.

how my moods flip in less than 30 mins

Try watching at half speed

Amazing

amazing✨

What video editing app did Harry use?

Who added the music?

7:26

Shinji. Get In The Eva

My dreams:

1:22 amogus ???

What, no early Beatles soundtrack? That was the first soundtrack I heard with Smith's Early Abstractions at RISD in 1970, I'm guessing everyone in the audience was stoned (including me!). As cool as the music presented here is, I prefer to watch Smith's films silent or as Robert Breer liked to do have an audible (noisy) optical soundtrack with no sounds or music on the track.

The world needs less Studio Ghibli sentimentality and more Harry Smith abstractions !

0:16 That Music is the horrible music ever composed 🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤮🤮😞😞😞😩😩