Watts with Eggs

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Watts with Eggs (1967)

Directed by Marie Menken

Animation · 2m

"By 1967, Menken had become interested in the work of Fluxus artist Robert Watts and made a short animation piece, Watts with EGGS, in which she animates his chrome-casted Box of Eggs. The film opens with lights reflected in the eggs (of course), then, through single framing, pixilates a man's hand arranging eggs in different patterns. The hands (those of John Hawkins) fill the box back up with eggs. Next, the eggs do the same routine, but more magically, more serenely, without the assistance of the hands. Menken also introduces a string and a feather duster into animated action, so that the eggs, one by one, seem to be coming directly out of the duster (objects infect objects). By the end, the eggs are magically back in their box." Melissa Ragona

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Cast

Crew

Director
Marie Menken

Details

Release date
1967-08-10
Runtime
2m
Genres
Animation
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
No Language
Countries
United States of America