Black Film Series

Black Plus-X, Black & White, 9 minutes, 1966  
Black Trip, Black & White, 4 minutes, 1966
Black T.V., Black & White, 9 minutes, 1970  

Media radical Aldo Tambellini’s dynamic Black Film Series (1965-70) extends from total abstraction to footage of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and black teenagers in Coney Island. Tambellini worked directly on the film strip with chemicals, paint and ink; scratching, scraping, and intercutting material from industrial films, newsreels and TV. Abrasive, provocative and turbulent, the series is a rapid-fire response to the beginning of the information age and a world in flux.  “Black to me is like a beginning … Black is within totality, the oneness of all. Black is the expansion of consciousness in all directions.” Aldo Tambellini…