Movie Details
Theatrical Release:July 27th, 1972
Original Language:English
Production Companies:The TV Lab at WNET
ScapeMates (1972)
In one of his first experiments in video Emshwiller creates an electronic landscape of both abstract and figurative elements where colorized dancers are chromakeyed into a mutable computeranimated environment Working with the Scanimate an early analog video synthesizer Emshwiller choreographs an architectural illusory video space in which frames proliferate within frames disembodied heads and hands move within a collage of animated forms and the dancers and their environment are subjected to constant transformations through image processing With its witty interplay of the real and the unreal in an electronically rendered videospace and the skillful manipulation and articulation of a sculptural illusion of threedimensionality Scapemates introduced a new vocabulary of video imagemaking