Infinite Escher

You're watching video history! This film was created in 1990 by the Sony HDVS Soft Center to demonstrate the nascent High Definition Video technology. When this movie first debuted in the main store window of Sony Town in Akihabara, passers by would gasp in amazement at the clarity and sharp crisp focus of the picture.

Infinite Escher is a paean to German mathematician and artist [Edit: Dutch Graphic Designer] MC Escher. It stars a young Sean Ono Lennon as a teen who starts experiencing visions of various MC Escher paintings, drawings and mechanical draughts. How many MC Escher motifs can you count?

Although the special effects now seem passe, this video was truly cutting edge at release, a collaboration of avant gard industry artists: Directors John Sanborn, Mary Perillo, Dean Winkler; Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Art Direction by Nam June Paik.

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[luxmovingimage]

I'm so excited to have found this video on YouTube! The LUX Collection has other titles by Dean Winkler - "Act III" (1983) "Renaissance" (1984) & "Luminare" (1985).

[MastaAzumarek]

i wud've laughed if this ended with something like, "few hours earlier" and you see him doing drugs XD... MC Escher... one crazy guy... really amazing work

[LapisLee]

Reposted on Strawberry Fields on 2008-11-08.

[PromoCalaita2007]

yep he was a dutch

[3Deity]

I remember several amazing works around this time, all on HD. Haven't seen this one before. Another was CG and the first NURBS based characters and the others where by Sbig using loads of extras and compositing like this. He would shoot the backdrops in the Luvre in paris and then shoot the extras in Los Angeles, All this without computer controlled rostrum cameras. Amazing stuff, thanks for posting!

[LapisLee]

seanlennon-com

[tchibumba]

MC Escher was neither german, nor mathematician, though...