PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MARCH 10,1900 PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY. MARCH 10. 1966 _.._. _ . , _e_, ,,. __, _....,. I FILMS Experimental Films: Good, Bad But Always, Always, Different ART Peterdi Shows Mastery of Print Making r HILLEL SABBATH SERVICE The type of film now being shown in the present Ann Arbor Film Festival is the future of the movie medium. Some of the pic- tures are awful, others pseudo-in- tellectual, others damn good. But they are a far cry from the lavish gilt-on-gilt productions of Holly- wood. First Show It is possible to get ahold of a certain photographic technique and work it so hard that it be- comes a tiresome cliche in just a few minutes. If you don't believe it, try to see "Upright, L.A. Is Burning" or "Yellow Horse," which opened the Fourth Ann Arbor Film Festival last night. "Up-Tight" coughed up' its life in a series of dizzying hand-held camera shots and tricky color montages. "Yellow Horse" belabor- ed the odd notion of screening a motorcycle race in slow motion. These two fancies were preceded by a perfectly earnest film on Radio Free Europe which, while at the other end of the scale from its running mates, made equally little impression. Part the Second of the evening's entertainment was titled "Flux- films, Ann Arbor, Part I." These seemed to line up with the auteur films we read about in idle mo- ments, like 'Sleep" and "Hair- cut." The first short consisted en- tirely of a screen-wide smile, while the second was an extrme slow motion film of a man exhaling cigarette smoke. If these descrip- tions sound' a bit ridiculous--so is this whole movement in film- making. Broadmindedness only goes so far. At this point, we could have been shown an old Ma and Pa Kettle movie and we'd all have declared it exquisite camp, but in- steal the program closed with "(No) Peace in the Valley" by the Prime Movers. The film show- ed a lot of overexposed shots of Ann Arbor (in color) together with occasional abstract moving patterns, like an oscilloscope on LSD. The sound track was provided by the Prime Movers themselves plus a prerecorded tape. The mu- sic, even from the second row,' was imaginative and continually interesting. I suspect that I enjoyed the im- ages on the screen because they were of a familiar place seen from unfamiliar angles, but this is not grudging praise: "(No) Place in the Valley" was very enjoyable, in sad contrast to the rest of the lot. -PETER BICKELMANN * * .* Second Show "Penny Arcade" was the long- est and most traditional film of the nine o'clock series yesterday. The technique of this film is not so unusual as the others: there are no elaborate plays with cam- era movement or lighting. There was even a definite plot line - something that experimental film- makers have been avoiding recent- ly as "decadent" and "reaction- ary." But the result is a moving piece of cinema in contrast to the coldness and vapidity of some of the technical tours de force that have been turned out under the guise of "experiments." The movie begins with a scene of comic book mock-heroic: A dark alley, an inocuous old gen- tleman attacked by a punk from the streets, is saved by a rather pudgy superman-figure. As the film progresses, we realize that it is a comic strip, for the characters speeches appear in the familiar balloons of Dick Tracy and Com- pany. One of the other extremely good films in this showing was a film that almost was not shown be- cause of technical difficulties: "Relax Your Mind." It scarcely lasts three minutes and consists of a series of pictures and phrases flashed on the screen to the ac- companimerit of some nasal blues.' If it had been longer, it might have been boring, but instead it is hilarious. The last film "Eargogh" was extremely interesting, if you're interested in that sort of thing. It was a very complicated por- trayal of an incident in Van Gogh's life (his cutting off his ear) emeshed in brilliant color, forests, sunflowers, Van Gogh self portraits and some of the standard paraphenalia of experi- mental cinema. It is symptomatic that many people walked out be- fore the end. -MARY BARKEY By FRANCES HYNES Gabor Peterdi attempts to make monumental prints, and succeeds beautifully. His works are on dis- play at the Forsythe Gallery until March 17. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1915. Peterdi has received awards for his prints all over the world. Starting with the Prix de Rome in 1930, he went on to win the Boston Arts Festival Graphics Prize in 1957, a Ford Foundation Grant in 1960, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964 and '65, and a prize in the Tokyo Graphic In- ternational Museum of Western Art. With such a display of awards, one would look forward to some truly excellent works. And no one will be disappointed. Peterdi achieves subtle and beautiful color, fascinating tex- ture, and monumental polygonal shapes. He is one of the few print makers whom this writer knows who can be called monumental, without fear of disagreement. The technique which Peterdi uses for his monoprints and etch- Study in Guadalajara, Mexico The Guadalajara Summer School, a fully accredited University of Arizona program, conducted in cooperation with professors from Stanford University, University of California, and Guadalajara, will offer June 27 to August 8, art, folklore, geography, history, lan- guage and literature courses. Tui- tion, board and room is $265. Write Prof. Juan B. Rael, P.O. Box 7227, Stanford, Calif. ings is this: the plate is etched, and then frequently flat objects, such as a piece of cheesecloth or a bamboo mat are placed on the plate. The plate is then inked and applied to the paper and both the object and the plate show up in the product. This is how Peterdi Obtains some of his intriguing textures. In other etchings, the texture is the result of the way the plate itself is etched. Peterdi's shapes are large and frequently polygonal, that is, using only straight lines. Often they are outlined in a different color. This makes the shapes stand out from their background. Sometimes these backgrounds look like Arctic land- scapes and sometimes they are ,more like the "nothingness" of surrealist settings. Most of the works have landscape titles, many related to the Arctic. Peterdi uses background colors of cool blues, greens and greys which one would expect to find in an arctic wasteland. But his flat. polygonal, textured shapes, which usually are not part of the land- See PETERDI, Page 8' TOMORROW Friday, March 1 1 at 7:15 P.M. promptly Guest Speaker RABBI JACOB E. SEGAL Cong. Adas Shalom, Detroit "The Jew in America: Retrospect and Challenge" John Planer, Cantor The Hillel Choir, Mike Robbins, Director Joan Temkin, Organist B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION 1429 Hill Street All Are Welcome i _ I 1 Presented by The Cinema Guild and Dramatic Arts Center in cooperation with Cinema II and Challenge Lecture Series in the ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN AUDITORIUM. TONIGHT and Friday Each program is different! Saturday: IN PERSON UP-TIGHT with ANDY WARHOL and the VELVET UNDERGROUND Films by Andy Warhol VINYL with Gerard Malanga LUPE with Edie Sedgwick ROCK 'N ROLL by the Velvet Underground Performances scheduled at 7:00 and 9:00 Sunday: Announcement and replays of Award-Winning Films and Film Highlights Screenings at 7:00, 9:00 and i1:00 Single Admission 75c hr F V Across Campus THURSDAY, MARCH 10 2:15 p.m. - John A. Stark- weather will hold a seminar on "Computer-Assisted Interviewing and Testing" at 1057 MHRI. 7 ands9 p.m.-The Ann Arbor Film Festival will be held in the Architecture Aud. 8:00 p.m.-The Travel Club will sponsor the film "Return to Erin" in Aud. A.' 8:30 p.m.-The School of Music will present a String Orchestra Concert with John Farrer con- ducting in the Recital Hall, School of Music. 8:30 p.m.-The student string orchestra, conducted by John Far- rer, a student in the School of Music, will present a concert in the music school Recital Hall. Fea- tured will be a premiere work, "Three Pieces for Strings," by Jer- ry Dilik, a member of the Michi- gan Band. FRIDAY, MARCH 11 4:15 p.m.-The Psychology De- partment will present Dr. Leonard Berkowitz of the Univertisy of Wisconsin in a colloquium on "Some Experiments on Automa- tism and Intent in Human Ag- gression" ,in Aud. B. 7 and 9 p.m.-The Ann Arbor Film Festival will be held in the Architecture Aud. 4 0 Shown at 7:00-3:00 5:00-7:00 and 9:05 Hear OREMP, A HAPPY H ONEYM ON. .becomes a dog gone disaster! Walt WAIT DISNEY S Dse' and '~Technicolor' ~u~~UIIC~h*~.~#~ *@11 AnV 1w.y d,.wt i r i BUZ BARC LAY singing all-his Hits: at 6tittq04 Don't come alone unless you're not with anybody FRIDAY G 103 S.Q.-75c 0I S ,. MIHIGAN "It's great to see a spy movie as realistic and believable!" -New York Times Academy Award Nomination-Best Actor f _ PARAMOUN4T PCURS pnVaa RICH~ARDBURTON CLAIRE BLOOM AKERWERNER ! ,44 " THE SP's a3 ' zf WENO AME IN .;. FISHMIElCOLD" ~ A MARTIN RITT PRODUCTIO 1 " 1}"i{ } i~~.: i '1:55".1; Yi 4" ! :. ?.;: JJ':":" ":::':::i.{:^ fJ}:.":":: ".":": .":ti::G:JJJM. >m :":"1.ti f{.jV. :XfJ "JJ'} ^ A" 1Mi"M'J ;. Y:.-F, ..^h"1:"r ,^:v; .r,..(irJ arq$.. r.".J .;wMM, .Y. ' . ....... .. ::"J ":":: :ti:V:"}:": i:1":M':"t:'. }: JJf.": :::.: : " :................... ..M1.....OA...'4.......1'a1MfJ 1Y. 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