Myron Ort Movies

Student film project for San Francisco State University.

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

13 min., sound, 1967

A short film by Myron Ort.

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

Hand painted film. Extended graphic modes explored.

From the “No Metaphor” Series. Camera-less filmmaking. Hand painted.

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

Originally an 8mm film with hand-painting which was blown up to 16mm and hand-painted again before multiple printings with several optical...

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