THIS DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE ON EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION IS EXCERPTED FROM A BONUS FEATURE ON iotaCenter's KINETICA VIDEO LIBRARY™ DVD: JULES ENGEL SELECTED WORKS, VOLUME 1: "Jules Engel: An Artist For All Seasons," A Janeann Dill Film (coming 2010). http://www.iotacenter.org/kinetica/engel

JULES ENGEL was a Master Artist and Filmmaker whose abstract paintings and films paved a visionary path for over six decades in the varied disciplines of experimental animation and fine arts (painting, printmaking, sculpture).

Engel biographer and scholar, Janeann Dill, brings together years of her research, writing, and filmmaking in The Jules Engel Biographical Project to frame Engel's work within the critical histories of art, cinema, and experimental animation. More on the biographical project can be found at http://www.interdisciplinaryartinstitute.com/Engel_Docume...

Quoting: "The Modernist choreography of the Ballet Russes (circa 1935-37) recalled Engel's intuitive discoveries of abstraction in his paintings and subsequently formed the conceptual core of Engels experimental animation films.  If pressed to identify a singular aesthetic in the whole of Jules Engel's work, it is certainly the virtual containment of timing in a definitive quality of choreography. --- Janeann Dill, Ph.D., MFA"

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