Myron Ort, filmmaker, painter, musician, composer, repairer of antique cuban drums, restorer of vintage cars and expert on Latin-American music, talks to H2EEF about his unique film works. Spanning most forms of experimental practice and heavily influenced by the 60s psychedelic scene and Gestalt psychology, using hand painted film, multi-exposure films, film portrait, found footage and more, Myron's work is really deserving of a wider audience. In this first part of our discussion, we discuss the influences of the 60s Bay Area scene on the filmmaker's work and in particular his psychedelic films and the film that Stan Brakhage referred to as "the most worked on hand painted film I've ever seen!" OMMO.

You can find his wondrous array of work on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/myronort

On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ZenOkeanos

and on his own website, where you can buy his collected films on DVD along with his paintings!: 

Filmmakers & artists discussed in this episode include

Barbara Hammer

Steven Zailian

Stan Brakhage

Jordan Belson

James Broughton

Bruce Baillie 

Ben Van Meter

Chick Strand

Sidney Peterson

Wassily Kandinsky

Len Lye

Man Ray

Jean Cocteau

Standish Lawder

Fernand Leger

Harold Gregor

Donna Germain

Peter Kubelka

Writers discussed include:

Aldous Huxley

Hoyt Sherman

Rudolf Arnheim

Wolfgang Köhler

Siegfried Kracauer