The Responsive Eye

Audience Score
54
The Responsive Eye
NR 26 minDocumentary
Before Brian De Palma became a narrative film maker he made documentaries Among them is The Responsive Eye which chronicles the Museum of Modern Arts 1965 exhibition of opart Curated by William Seitz this was the first significant exhibit of optical art synchronous with and in some cases arising out of the early days of psychedelic culture Its amusing to watch the stuffed shirts within the art world attempt to describe what they are looking at in conventional terms or resorting to psychological mumbo jumbo without ever mentioning mescaline or LSD

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Ken Burrows
Production Companies:Zodiac Associates Productions