The Maltese Cross Movement

director: A. Keewatin Dewdney

original title: The Maltese Cross Movement

country: Canada

year: 1967

running time: 6 min.

synopsis

A Maltese cross and crescent moon drive the intermittent mechanism inside a film projector, which ensures quick change of individual film frames. The accelerating exchange of segments of different types of film material also characterises this poetic structural film, which culminates in a poem addressed to the projection device: If you die tonight / you'll be gone tomorrow.

biography

Alexander Keewatin Dewdney (* 1941) is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. In his last book he offered a mathematical definition of biodiversity. As a mathematics student at the University of Michigan, he enrolled in George Manupelli's course and subsequently made six distinctive experimental films between 1966 and 1971.

more about film

director:

A. Keewatin Dewdney

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