Artype - |ˈärtsē|

George Maciunas and Paul Sharits seemed to be my favorite Fluxus filmmakers. Their films were more visual and rhythmic. Although films like Yoko Ono's had a subtle sense of rhythm due to the grain of the film with the super slow motion images, I became more engaged with the films that manipulated this exaggeration of the acknowledgement of the the frame rate. George Maciunas's Artype was really interesting to me. He even plays with this idea of frame rate with the title playing each letter of the title in one frame. Without knowing the name of the film before hand if would be easy to miss what the title even was. Althought the film is pretty simple there is a clear sense of rhythm and a build up or climax. The pulsing circle dances around the middle of the frame, switched from white on black to black on white and then seems to explode in miniature circle fractals. Even though the frame before more cluttered with the multiple circle and squares, the pulse and rhythm continues with the fast and slow motion of the shaped flying by the frame. This film also seems to be about positive and negative shape and the relationships they hold. To me this doesn't really seem like a Fluxus film that anyone could make.