Responsive Eye

Inspired by a painting by the Viennese painter and Op-Art artist Helga Philipp, Kurt Kren produced the film 11/65 Bild Helga Philipp in 1965, which suggests movement effects.

In the same year, the major Op Art exhibition The Responsive Eye took place at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition caused a sensation on the international art market and also inspired the then young Brian De Palma to make a really funny documentary film about this (also social) art event. With statements by curator William Seitz, psychologist Rudolf Arnheim, David Hockney, Josef Albers and others, the film is also a revealing contemporary document. Fittingly, a1b2c3, Study #40 and dream'sdreams, three new video works that can be seen in very different ways in the Op Art tradition. (Dietmar Schwärzler)

Program
a1b2c3 (Norbert Pfaffenbichler/Lotte Schreiber, 2006, 5 min.)
11/65 Bild Helga Philipp (Kurt Kren, 1965, 3 min.)
The Responsive Eye (Brian De Palma,1966, 26 min.)
dream’sdreams (Barbara Doser/Hofstetter Kurt (Parallel Media), 2007, 13 min.)
 #40 (Lia Study, 2007, 10 min.)