Between Two Worlds (Guy L. Côté)
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Between Two Worlds (Guy L. Côté) BETWEEN TWO WORLDS, Oxford Experimental Film Group, 1952, 16mm
In the conventional histories of experimental film, Post War Britain is an absence waiting for the sixties counterculture. This makes Between Two Worlds all the more unexpected and fantastic. Made in 1952 by the Oxford University Experimental Llm Group which included the director Guy L. Côté, the producer Derrick Knight and the painter/writer Sam Kaner, it is a deliriously overambitious modernist film ballet which sought ‘.....to combine the visual art of the cinema with that of dancing, colour, composition and music being used as a plastic art. It visualised a painter’s ballet, an attempt to weave dancers, sets and colour into moving abstract patterns.’ [1]
Plot
A film ballet - A blind artist is in love with a girl, but a mysterious guide takes him to an operation table where his sight is restored. The visible world appears to the artist, more frightening than his blind one.
Credits
Director
Guy L. Côté,
Production Company
Oxford University Film Society
Producer
KNIGHT, Derrick
Original scenario
KANER, Sam
Photography
WARNE, Michael
Camera Operator
PUTZ, James H.
Montage sequence by
TELBERG, Val
Editor
CÔTÉ, Guy L.
Original Sets
KANER, Sam
Original costumes
KANER, Sam
Music
SHAW, Christopher
Jazz sequence
PARNELL, Jack
Music Performer on Soundtrack
PARNELL, Jack
Music Performer on Soundtrack
DEUCHAR, Jimmy
Music Performer on Soundtrack
SCOTT, Ronnie
Music Performer on Soundtrack
CROMBIE, Tony
Music Performer on Soundtrack
STOKES, Sammy
