Lawrence Janiak is associated with: Animation Film Making: A Teaching Method at the Institute of Design 1968 to 1980
A short video documentary on Larry Janiak's time as an instructor at the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he taught undergraduate and graduate students for 12 years. Aaron Siskind hired Larry in 1968 to start an experimental live action and animated f ...
Watch NowDL2 reflects the influence of the American Bauhaus movement in Chicago introduced by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy during the late 30s/early 40s. The fim was made by shocking ten-foot strips of unprocessed black and white film into tanks of cold water, fixer, hot wate ...
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An unfinished film, or preliminary sketch, that pairs live action film with a recorded lecture on reincarnation by Baba Ram Dass, an American spiritual teacher and the author of the seminal 1971 book Be Here Now. The footage deliberately resembles outtakes ...
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This documentary film by Larry Janiak and Steve Rose records the day-long ceremonies during the dedication of the new Vivekananda Vedanta Society Temple in Chicago. Many Ramakrishna Order Swamis from other centers in the United States from India were in at ...
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A collaborative film conceived as a 'picture postcard,' the moving images recorded by the camera mirroring the card's picture side, the sound track evoking its written message. Life and Film is a lyrical look at some Chicago filmmakers on their way to the ...
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A documentary film about Hale House, a Chicago home where Swami Vivekananda lived while a speaker at the 1893 Parliament of Religions at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The film lingers on architectural details of the home while a soundtrack of Indian ...
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A documentary film of a large terrarium made out of wood and glass that Janiak built using handmade wood joints during the summer of 1959. The design was inspired by a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright's home Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin. ...
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Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak family gathering is sandwiched between superimposed garden scenes and rebellious direct animation. The sou ...
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A direct animation film featuring black and white full frame motion as opalescent as the dancing night sky. The abstract animation field textures subtly depict the infinitesimal nuclei of energy called Tanmatra, a moving field of aggregates of atoms and co ...
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Handmade, direct animation film using rubber based masking material and colored dye. Rhthmic colored linear patterns of abstract grids move in syncopation to the allegro from the Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G Major by J.S. Back. Inspired by the handmade fil ...
Watch NowA short video documentary on Larry Janiak's time as an instructor at the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he taught undergraduate and graduate students for 12 years. Aaron Siskind hired Larry in 1968 to start an experimental live action and animated f ...
Watch NowA collaborative film conceived as a 'picture postcard,' the moving images recorded by the camera mirroring the card's picture side, the sound track evoking its written message. Life and Film is a lyrical look at some Chicago filmmakers on their way to the ...
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