Christopher Maclaine – Scotch Hop (1959)
The wonderful Scotch Hop (1959) [ imdb says 1953] is something of a letdown only after seeing his first two staggering, shattering masterpieces. In that film Maclaine intercuts a small band of bagpipers with other scenes, making some costumed young women appear to dance to the bagpipes’ rhythms. Scotch Hop is animated by a tension between synchronicity and asynchronicity — the rhythms of the images and the music converge, then diverge. Each image feels as if it were perched on a knife-edge between a world of smooth, lyrical dance and a world about to be torn apart.
However, according to one of Stan Brakhage’s former students, Brakhage “thought SCOTCH HOP was Maclaine’s greatest work, the mature fruition of his filmmaking efforts.”
http://nitroflare.com/view/E7FDFFA8D366432/scotch_hop.avi
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