Wednesday, August 13, 2014

"Cosmic Flower Unfolding" by Ben Ridgway

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"Cosmic Flower Unfolding" by Ben Ridgway.

Cosmic Flower Unfolding from Ben Ridgway on Vimeo.

Ben Ridgway produced this psychedelic extravaganza of color and light that is a lot of fun to watch.

He has a lot of similarly freaky stuff on Ridgway's site.

Back in the '60s, if you wanted something kaleidoscopic to trip to, you had to go see "2001: A Space Odyssey" or "Alice in Wonderland" in a movie theater and run the risk of getting run off to jail for being a nuisance. Now, all you have to do is click on someone's web site!

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Advances of modern life!

But you don't have to be doing anything illicit to enjoy the dazzling geometric patterns in "Cosmic Flower Unfolding." It may also serve as a kind of Rorschach test, wherein you see something that is there only because your mind interprets it that way. It may be a flower unfolding to you - or it may be something else completely.

Anyway, it is a fun little diversion that hopefully, you will enjoy.

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Do you see a face there?
From the page:

A film by Ben Ridgway
Cosmic Flower Unfolding is a constant flow of emerging and dissolving oceanic, futuristic, and mandala forms. It is a tribute to abstraction, it’s connection to the inner space we inhabit and how it can be externalized.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION – SIGGRAPH 2013 Dailies| Anaheim, CA | summer 2013
ROYAL REEL AWARD: Canada International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, Canada | March 2014
SECOND PLACE AWARD: Independent Animation | ASIFA Second Annual ASIFA Spring Festival | 2013
Selected Screening/Installation: ANIMA MUNDI 2014 | Brazil | August 2014
Selected Screening: San Francisco International Film Festival | San Francisco, CA | April/May 2014
Selected Installation | Animafest 24th World Festival of Animated Film | Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia | 2014
Selected Screening/Installation: Currents 2014 New Media Festival, New Mexico | June 2014
Selected Screening: Fort McMurray International Film Festival | Alberta, Canada | Aug 2014
Selected Screening: San Francisco Frozen Film Fest | San Francisco, CA | July 2014
Selected Screening: Visionfest | Brooklyn, NY | May 2014
Selected Screening: Northwest Animation Festival | Portland, Oregon | May 2014
Selected Screening: Spirit Quest Film Festival | Edinboro, PA | April 2014
Selected Screening/Installation: Kansas City Film Festival, Kansas City, MO | April 2014
Selected Screening: Athens International Film + Video Festival | Athens, OH | April 2014
Selected Gallery Installation | Dreams and Divinities | San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico | March 2014
Selected Screening: Byron Bay International Film Festival | Feb/March 2014
Selected Screening: CINE TORO | Cali & Toro, Colombia | Sept 2013
Cosmic Flower Unfolding (c) copyright 2013 by Ben Ridgway
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