Raga shadow

Please be advised: This film features flashing lights that may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.

The Frank Eidlitz Collection contains the 16mm and 35mm film work of graphic designer and visual artist Frank Eidlitz (1923–1997), predominantly made during a Winston Churchill Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge in 1966. The collection contains Eidlitz’s experiments with light, movement and technology in film.

This short film features Frank Eidlitz’s early experiments with light, colour and motion.

To create these visuals, Eidlitz covered a series of disks with pieces of reflective paper and fluorescent colours, which he then placed on an apparatus that spun the disks at a high speed. The motion could be varied and stopped at any time, allowing the artist to create varying designs and images.

This film opens with footage of a woman’s silhouette dancing, overlaid with flashing geometric shapes in red and green. The film then focuses on the woman’s face and subsequently the silhouette of her legs, exploring movement, shadow and light.