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Myron Ort

Myron Ort

Experimental filmmaker and painter since the 60's. Master of Arts degree from San Francisco State Art/Film Dept. Taught Film in Art Dept. at Sonoma State University for the decade of the 70s.

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Movies Made By Myron Ort (48)

1968 Artifact (2017)

Even by the late 1960s, to my knowledge, there had been no "Abstract Expressionist" non-referential, extended painting applied directly to motion picture film. All previous examples of "direct animation" were more or less figurative, although some by Len L ...

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Phantom Ore (2012)

"In the 1960s I pioneered Abstract Expressionist painting directly to the film surface creating a new vocabulary of moving shape, color, and texture as well as a good measure of chance operation. In the 1970s I added multiple stages of optical printing to ...

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Neti Neti (Part I) (2010)

Hand painted film. Extended graphic modes explored. ...

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Neti Neti (Part II) (2010)

Hand painted film. Extended graphic modes explored. ...

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Neti Neti (Part III) (2010)

Hand painted film. Extended graphic modes explored. ...

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Okeanos (2008)

Filmed in Baja California where the desert sun meets the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf. A rusting shipwreck on the rocks outside of Cabo San Lucas in 1972 provides a central and poignant metaphor for a macro-psychedelic and micro-expressionistic exploration o ...

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Okeanos Painted Version (2008)

Filmed in Baja California where the desert sun meets the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf. A rusting shipwreck on the rocks outside of Cabo San Lucas in 1972 provides a central and poignant metaphor for a macro-psychedelic and micro-expressionistic exploration o ...

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Mother Hubba II (1980)

A short film by Myron Ort. ...

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Mountain Cat (1980)

A short film by Myron Ort. ...

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Park Man (1980)

A short film by Myron Ort. ...

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Old Redwood Series (1979)

During the ensuing years of developing the land, remodeling the house, the studios, and various outbuildings, as well as various projects and excursions with my partner and friends, I carried around the smallest and humblest of unobtrusive regular 8mm movi ...

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Running Fence (1977)

Second in the series by the Maysles brothers documenting the monuments/sculptures of Christo, whose art projects are landscape-scaled, and more "pop" performance art designed to question how we relate to art in the public sphere, especially when it's as ob ...

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Hairy Things (1977)

Myron Ort headed up a small team of animators for this 1977 short. ...

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Christo Running Fence Reels (1976)

The artists known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude along with a hired crew of enthusiastic local assistants erected a major early work spanning both Sonoma and Marin counties in Northern California. "Running Fence", the culmination of 42 months of collaborativ ...

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Palimpsest Palindrome (1975)

Mirrored from left to right and front to back, this multilayered black and white symmetrical abstract horror film has apocalypse written all over it. It is still a lot of fun to see and is not without its humor. ...

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Okeanos (1972)

The edited A-roll original prior to reversal wet-gate printing and hand-painting. ...

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Ommo (1972)

Originally an 8mm film with hand-painting which was blown up to 16mm and hand-painted again before multiple printings with several optical manipulations. A mandala of ever changing configurations, both angelic and demonic, to be seen as an evanescent pheno ...

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OM III (1972)

From the Psychedelic Series 1968-1972 / Painting on Film, Optical Printer work, Multiple exposure, pioneering techniques from Psychedelic era. ...

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Eye Lands (1969)

"A film produced in Regular 8mm around 1970. At the time this film was very much praised by Stan Brakhage who asked me for a print and urged me to never put a sound track with it. ...

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OM II (1969)

From the Psychedelic Series: 1968-1972. Painting on Film, Optical Printer work, Multiple exposure, pioneering techniques from Psychedelic era. ...

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Awakener (1969)

Transition from psychedelics to Meher Baba. Cinema as path to reality. ...

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Love Must Love (1968)

A love story, as it happened, filmed entirely by the lovers themselves. A joyful affirmation of peace, harmony, and beauty. ...

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OM I (1968)

From the Psychedelic Series: 1968-1972. Early work with the JK Optical Printer. Some of the earliest examples of optically manipulated hand painted film. ...

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He's Here Now (1967)

Through the veils of multiple exposure at an "Acid Test" party in San Francisco (toward the end of "He's Here Now" ) one might catch a brief glimpse of Ken Kelsey and Neal Cassidy. During those years, when picking up processed film at Multi-Chrome labs in ...

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Dyanne (1966)

Student film project for San Francisco State University. ...

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Movies Starring Myron Ort (2)

Love Must Love (1968)

A love story, as it happened, filmed entirely by the lovers themselves. A joyful affirmation of peace, harmony, and beauty. ...

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He's Here Now (1967)

Through the veils of multiple exposure at an "Acid Test" party in San Francisco (toward the end of "He's Here Now" ) one might catch a brief glimpse of Ken Kelsey and Neal Cassidy. During those years, when picking up processed film at Multi-Chrome labs in ...

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