Myron Ort Movies

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

From the Psychedelic Series: 1968-1972. Painting on Film, Optical Printer work, Multiple exposure, pioneering techniques from Psychedelic era.

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

15 min., sound, 1967

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

Student film project for San Francisco State University.

Filmed in Baja California where the desert sun meets the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf. A rusting shipwreck on the rocks outside of Cabo San Lucas in...

Hand painted film. Extended graphic modes explored.

Mirrored from left to right and front to back, this multilayered black and white symmetrical abstract horror film has apocalypse written all over it....

During the ensuing years of developing the land, remodeling the house, the studios, and various outbuildings, as well as various projects and...