Fleischfilm Films by Thorsten Fleisch, experimental filmmaker. Fleisch "
became recognized as one of the world's leading innovators of experimental film with the release of his 16mm film, Blutrausch, a film made entirely from his own blood." "Fleisch feels a compulsive need to attack everyone's eyes and ears... challenging the eyes and mind with wickedly clever films that combine mathematical systems of editing with reflexive commentary." Check out some
interviews or Fleisch's stimulating article,
Animating the 4th Dimension.
posted by MetaMonkey
on Feb 3, 2006 -
5 comments
The Tesseract Charles H. Hinton, eccentric, bigamist, son-in-law of George Boole (yes
that Boole) coined the word
Tesseract and claimed that we could all
visualize the fourth dimension. He wrote
several books and claimed to have created a set of cubes that, used properly, would allow anyone to visualize hyperspace. His ideas were all the rage. Salvador Dali was
inspired by him. Robert Heinlein wrote
a classic short story about a house built as an unfolded tesseract. Madeleine L'Engle wrote
a classic children's story. With the
advent of Einstein and his claim that "Time was the fourth dimension", the higher spatial dimensions were forgotten. (Until
recently that is) And Hinton was forgotten. Or was he? And what happened to the cubes? Rudy Rucker, a huge fan of Hinton,
fails to reprint the instructions. Rumours are that, if you build them and use them, they will
drive you insane.
posted by vacapinta
on Jul 9, 2002 -
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