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In 1969 experimental filmmaker Walter Ungerer began a five part series of films. The theme was the search for truth and understanding.
Part One and Two, INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND and UBI EST TERRAM OOBIAE? were created while Ungerer was living in a loft in New York City. Outdated film was used. In 1969 film laboratories were no longer using the chemicals necessary to process the high speed film stock so long the staple of television news crews. One laboratory was willing to develop the film. The results were disasterous. The film would not dry. Carrying the material to his large loft in paper bags, Ungerer strung the film from end to end in many rows. There were about 1200 feet of it stretched over the space, hanging there for three months until it eventually did dry. Then the editing process began. The film accumulated added texture on its surface due to dust and dirt present in the loft. Thus two very unconventional films were born.
Multiple layers of picture clips were sent out for test masters of not double exposures but sometimes ten and twelve layers of different clips sandwiched one on top of the next to be reproduced as a single multi exposure master. Sometimes a hole punch was used to punch out circles in the strips of film, which were then re-introduced indiscriminately in the vacant holes. A similar approach was used with the sound: layering, and playing the material backwards or slowing it down or speeding it up.
When finished the two films became instant successes with the avant garde film community. The Museum of Modern Art included UBI EST TERRAM OOBIAE? in a showcase reel it sent around the world in 1970, representing the best of American experimental films. The Ann Arbor Film Festival included parts one and two of Oobieland in its own national touring program.
In September 1969 Ungerer moved to Vermont where parts three, four and five were created over the next four years. Part three, SOLSTICE was very different from the first two parts. It was more theatrical, utilizing actors, jugglers, mimes, and the Bread and Puppet Theater to produce a very surreal atmosphere, a world with dark spaces. Part four plunges deeper into the myth and mysticism first introduced in part three. Four people strangely meet at a farmhouse, sit around a table and in turn tell a surreal story. One is not sure if there is truth to it, or fantasy. The title THE TERRIBLE MOTHER refers to "Mother Nature". The event that takes place around the farmhouse table with the four strangers, is the ushering-in of the new TERRIBLE MOTHER, and the exit of the old.
Part five, EPILOGUE TO OOBIELAND is a 40 second animation punctuating the entire series much like a period ends a sentence. All together the five parts exhibit an array of techniques in animation,
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