Myron Ort Movies

Second in the series by the Maysles brothers documenting the monuments/sculptures of Christo, whose art projects are landscape-scaled, and more "pop"...

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

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

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...

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

"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...

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

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

13 min., sound, 1967

Hand painted film. Extended graphic modes explored.

"In the 1960s I pioneered Abstract Expressionist painting directly to the film surface creating a new vocabulary of moving shape, color, and texture...

Filmed with the Bolex Rx8 camera which was the exact same size as a 16mm Bolex but holding 4 times the amount of film time-wise. These rolls were...

A short film by Myron Ort.

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