Poemfield No. 5. d. Stan VanDerBeek (1968)
One of a series of nine films made by VanDerBeek during a residency at Bell Labs, Poemfield No.5 (also known as 'Free Fall') combines footage of skydivers and computer code by Ken Knowlton to demonstrate the possibilities of computer animation. It was made with with a state of the art resolution of 252 x 184 pixels - with 4k now becoming the standard, and with up to 24k available, this makes the Poemfield series look like the digital equivalent of cave paintings: crude but miraculous.
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