Myron Ort Movies

Second in the series by the Maysles brothers documenting the monuments/sculptures of Christo, whose art projects are landscape-scaled, and more "pop"...

A love story, as it happened, filmed entirely by the lovers themselves. A joyful affirmation of peace, harmony, and beauty.

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...

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

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

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

"A film produced in Regular 8mm around 1970. At the time this film was very much praised by Stan Brakhage who asked me for a print and urged me to...

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

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Transition from psychedelics to Meher Baba. Cinema as path to reality.

Myron Ort headed up a small team of animators for this 1977 short.

The edited A-roll original prior to reversal wet-gate printing and hand-painting.

Even by the late 1960s, to my knowledge, there had been no “Abstract Expressionist” non-referential, extended painting applied directly...

Through the veils of multiple exposure at an "Acid Test" party in San Francisco (toward the end of "He's Here Now" ) one might catch a brief glimpse...