FLIGHT FORMS - 1976
A “film fragment” made by Tom Van Sant and award-winning filmmaker Ed Spiegel, thie full title of this work is: Flight Forms: The Improbable Sculpture of Tom Van Sant.
It begins in Tom’s studio where he is carving/sanding a wooden sculpture of a bird. Various of his bird sculptures are shown before the film cuts to shots of Van Sant’s kites, flying over mountains and into sand dunes, where the camera pulls into a red van and trailer driving on the sand. People get out and unload kites and parts for a caterpillar kite, which they construct and fly.
Click HERE to see the film on Vimeo
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Flight Forms on film has not been found. It exists on-line, DVD, and VHS.
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1976
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Film
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15 minutes, 13 seconds
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Unknown
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Flight Forms screen shot
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Flight Forms was screened every day for a week at LA’s Nuart Theater, September 17-23, 1976. This qualified it for submission to the Academy Awards. The film was apparently submitted but not nominated.
