Robert Russett

출생 : 1935-05-22,

사망 : 2015-03-26

약력

Robert J. Russett (May 22 1935 - March 26 2015) was a media artist, educator and writer whose animated films and installations were exhibited internationally. He was awarded the University of Lafayette's Distinguished Professor Award in 1973 for his outstanding work as a professor. An authority on animation, Russett co-authored, with Cecile Starr, the 1988 book "Experimental Animation: Origins of New Art," which is considered to be a "must-have" title in the field. He participated in the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans with a Multi-media Installation, and after approximately twenty-five years of his career, collaborated on a traveling exhibit, Robert Russett: A Retrospective Survey, in 1989. Robert Russett's experimental films have been shown all over the world, including, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; G. Pompidou Center in Paris, France; Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Vanderbilt University; The New Orleans Museum of Art; Berkshire Museum, MA; Canadian Film Conservatory, Canada; Oberhausen Short Film Festival, West Germany; World Festival of Animation, Yugoslavia; Australian Filmmakers Festival, Australia; and the New York Film Festival at the Lincoln Center, 1977. Recently in 2013, Robert Russett Films have been preserved and are now part of the Film Archive Collection at The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences, in Hollywood, California. Also in October 2013, courtesy of the Academy Film Archive, several films were viewed at The 51st New York Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center.

참여 작품

Small Foveal Fields
Small Foveal Fields
Director
Small Foveal Fields, a continuation of my work with abstract filmic imagery, is primarily concerned with the mystery and elemental poetry of visual perception. Structurally, this film consists of ten separate-but- related episodes in which kinetic atmospheric light emerges from darkness, creates and activates color images and color space, then fades into black. Each of these ten mobile color fields interacts with a static grid system of white dots which provides a geometric reference and counterpoint to the film’s amorphic evolution
Primary Stimulus
Primary Stimulus
Director
Primary Stimulus is an integrated sound-image structure which explores the intrinsic qualities of cinematic light. The abstract patterns which are seen on the screen when Primary Stimulus is projected are the same patterns which create the film’s accompanying soundtrack. My aim in Primary Stimulus, however, was not merely to create the effect of "seeing sound." but rather, in a larger sense, to further develop the cinematic potential of non-objective light as a free and viable tool for audio-visual action. By using the film frame as a consolidated unit, sound and image issue from a single center and interpenetrate in a way which is not limited by the structural conventions of music or pictorial form. It was, therefore, my intention in Primary Stimulus to exploit the freedom of this holistic cinematic concept, and to create an expressive animated work based on the frame-by-frame articulation of sight and sound relationships.
Brain Field
Brain Field
Director
Brain Field is an abstract minimal film with an emphasis on the temporal interaction of pure color. All movement in this film has been eliminated or neutralized in order to intensify the impact of changing color systems. The evolutionary process of these color systems is created with the basic cinematic technique of fading-in and fading-out. The geometry of Brain Field, as a result, is static and consists of color-activated nonrelational forms. Varying envelopes of space are created throughout Brain Field by orchestrating the attack and decay of color sensations. By using this minimal approach to film, it was my aim to create temporal color activity that is real, self-evident, and devoid of subject matter or secondary associations.
Neuron
Neuron
Director
Abstract patterns are animated to explore the optical effects of filmic colour and geometry.
Fake Newsreal
Fake Newsreal
Director
A short film by Robert Russett focusing on Marilyn Monroe.
Under The Juggernaut
Under The Juggernaut
Director
The theme of the film is political assassination and it is presented with lightening-fast collage. The figures of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, John and Robert Kennedy, and Lee Harvey Oswald flash by at great speed with animated images overlaid on these flashing figures. The sound track is a hodgepodge of speech excerpts, news broadcasts, and jarringly discordant music.