Myron Ort Movies

From the “No Metaphor” Series. Camera-less filmmaking. Hand painted.

Through the veils of multiple exposure at an "Acid Test" party in San Francisco (toward the end of "He's Here Now" ) one might catch a brief glimpse...

Mirrored from left to right and front to back, this multilayered black and white symmetrical abstract horror film has apocalypse written all over it....

From the Psychedelic Series 1968-1972 / Painting on Film, Optical Printer work, Multiple exposure, pioneering techniques from Psychedelic era.

Transition from psychedelics to Meher Baba. Cinema as path to reality.

The edited A-roll original prior to reversal wet-gate printing and hand-painting.

From the Psychedelic Series: 1968-1972. Painting on Film, Optical Printer work, Multiple exposure, pioneering techniques from Psychedelic era.

13 min., sound, 1967

"In the 1960s I pioneered Abstract Expressionist painting directly to the film surface creating a new vocabulary of moving shape, color, and texture...

A love story, as it happened, filmed entirely by the lovers themselves. A joyful affirmation of peace, harmony, and beauty.

During the ensuing years of developing the land, remodeling the house, the studios, and various outbuildings, as well as various projects and...

"A film produced in Regular 8mm around 1970. At the time this film was very much praised by Stan Brakhage who asked me for a print and urged me to...

15 min., sound, 1967