Watts with Eggs poster

Watts with Eggs

3.0(1)19672m1

"By 1967, Menken had become interested in the work of Fluxus artist Robert Watts and made a short animation piece, Watts with EGGS, in which she animates his chrome-casted Box of Eggs. The film opens with lights reflected in the eggs (of course), then, through single framing, pixilates a man's hand arranging eggs in different patterns. The hands (those of John Hawkins) fill the box back up with eggs. Next, the eggs do the same routine, but more magically, more serenely, without the assistance of the hands. Menken also introduces a string and a feather duster into animated action, so that the eggs, one by one, seem to be coming directly out of the duster (objects infect objects). By the end, the eggs are magically back in their box." Melissa Ragona

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Director

Marie Menken

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereFilm-Makers' Cinematheque10 Aug 1967

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Watts with Eggs was released on 10 August 1967.

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