The Fluxfilms movies in order
There are 36 Fluxfilms films, about 2.1 hours in total. The first was released in 1962, the latest in 1970. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
- 1
Regardez moi cela suffit (1962)
1 Jan 1962 · 7 min
Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all.
- 2
La traversée du port de Nice à la nage (1963)
1 Jan 1963 · 3 min
Swimming across Nice harbour fully clothed. Ben swims across a bay in Nice.
- 3
Sun in Your Head (1963)
7 Jul 1963 · 7 min
"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures of texts like: 'silence, genius at work' and 'ich liebe dich.' The end credit is 'Television décollage, Cologne, 1963."
- 4
Zen for Film (1964)
21 Mar 1964 · 8 min
In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light, occasionally altered by the appearance of scratches and dust particles in the surface of the damaged film material. This a film which depicts only its own material qualities; An "anti-film", meant to encourage viewers to focus on the lack of concrete images.
- 5
Sears Catalogue 1-3 (1965)
1 Jan 1965 · 1 min
Each film frame is a different image from the Sears Roebuck mail order catalogue. The film places pictures of the objects sold by Sears to the consumer society side by side with pictures of female models
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Wrist Trick (1965)
1 Jan 1965 · 1 min
Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.
- 8
Invocations of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage) (1966)
1 Jan 1966 · 1 min
"INVOCATION is Higgins' Satie movie... the purest attempt to clear art from any or all historical, esthetic, thematic, ornamental claptrap to regain the lost-eye consciousness." - Jonas Mekas
- 9
10 Feet (1966)
1 Jan 1966 · 1 min
Prestype on clear film measuring tape, 10ft. length. No camera. At the end of every foot of film numbers appear, 1, 2, etc to 10
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Trace No. 22 (1966)
1 Jan 1966 · 3 min
Begins with a picture of Marilyn Monroe, then shifts to a female body, shot from belly button down, which is wriggling under piles of cellophane.
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Trace No. 23 (1966)
1 Jan 1966 · 3 min
Begins with a shot of a demarcation line on an asphalt tennis court. A hand points to the distant landscape, then numbers 408 and 409 appear on a female torso.
- 13
Trace No. 24 (1966)
1 Jan 1966 · 1 min
X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking.
- 14
Opus 74, Version 2 (1966)
1 Jan 1966 · 2 min
Single frame exposures, color. Different image each frame, various items in the room, etc.
- 15
Artype (1966)
1 Jan 1966 · 3 min
Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film. No camera.
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Dance (1966)
1 Jan 1966 · 3 min
"Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."
- 20
Police Car (1966)
1 Jan 1966 · 1 min
Cale makes a short film called Police Car. No sound, and it is in black & white. Part #31 in the Fluxus Film series.
- 21
Je ne vois rien, je n'entends rien, je ne dis rien (1966)
1 Jan 1966 · 8 min
Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.
- 22
The Evil Faerie (1966)
2 Jan 1966 · 1 min
Following a series of title cards, a man in sunglasses briefly flutters his hands like fairy. Owen Land states that this film was not made by George Landow, and believes it should be credited to John Cavanaugh. "George Maciunas had a number of films which didn’t have titles on them. Then he put them together into his Fluxus reel and tried to remember who made them. It was an intentional Fluxus jok
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5 O'Clock in the Morning (1966)
22 Jan 1966 · 5 min
A handful of rocks and chestnuts falling, filmed with high speed camera.
- 24
No. 4 (1966)
6 Feb 1966 · 6 min
This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.
- 25
Disappearing Music for Face (1966)
9 Mar 1966 · 11 min
A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression.
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Smoking (1966)
9 Mar 1966 · 5 min
Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion.
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Eyeblink (1966)
10 Mar 1966 · 1 min
A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is projected at normal speed, 24 frames per second, thus creating a slow-motion effect.
- 31
One (1966)
10 Mar 1966 · 5 min
Collected as part of the Fluxfilm Anthology (a multi-reel compendium of 37 short films assembled by Fluxus founder and central operator George Maciunas), One captures the lifespan of a single match recorded at 2,000 frames per second using a 16mm high-speed camera. The frame rate is then decelerated to the standard 24fps for presentation. The film emphasizes each gesture, sway and flare of flame a
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Entrance to Exit (1966)
31 Dec 1966 · 7 min
Features entrance and exit door signs, fading through black and white.
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Fluxfilm No. 36 (1970)
1 Jan 1970 · 3 min
Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame.
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Fluxfilm No. 37 (1970)
1 Jan 1970 · 2 min
Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.