Film: Vertigogo (2022)

Film: Vertigogo (2022)

Back when I was teaching an undergraduate course, one of my yearly highlights was a screening for students of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho on the big screen. There are many showier reasons for enjoying this film, but I always loved the Saul Bass-designed opening titles – those simple horizontal lines sliding in across the frame with…

philgomm

March 17, 2022

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Animation, Cinema, Film, Saul Bass, Short Film, The Kick About, Vertigogo (2022)

Back when I was teaching an undergraduate course, one of my yearly highlights was a screening for students of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho on the big screen. There are many showier reasons for enjoying this film, but I always loved the Saul Bass-designed opening titles – those simple horizontal lines sliding in across the frame with such urgency, while Bernard Herrmann’s score propelled them along. Working with a few simple elements – dots and dashes, lines and ellipses – I set about producing an affectionate fantasia on some Bass-inspired themes for my response to The Kick-About No.49.

10 responses to “Film: Vertigogo (2022)”

charlymo

March 17, 2022 at 11:03 am

Loved this film, Phil. The music and the images work together so well you cannot imagine any other way it could possible be. Can watch it over and over. 🙂

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1. philgomm
  
  March 17, 2022 at 4:19 pm
  
  Thanks so much 😀
  
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Graeme Daly

March 17, 2022 at 11:52 am

Agreed – such a gorgeous response Phil!! 😍

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1. philgomm
  
  March 17, 2022 at 4:09 pm
  
  Cheers big fella X
  
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memadtwo

March 17, 2022 at 12:15 pm

I really enjoyed what you did with this. Mesmerizing. (K)

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1. philgomm
  
  March 17, 2022 at 4:08 pm
  
  Thanks so much 😀
  
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Vertigogo / Panels #1 (2022) – Red's Kingdom

March 19, 2022 at 10:01 am

[…] Saul Bass as our mutual muse for The Kick-About No.49, I took the opportunity to produce a short film in celebration of some of Bass’s signature elements – or more accurately, took the […]

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Vertigogo / Panels #2 (2022) – Red's Kingdom

March 22, 2022 at 10:03 am

[…] collection of panels deriving from this short film produced in response to The Kick-About No.49. I never studied textiles. I’m often left […]

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Vertigogo / Panels #3 (2022) – Red's Kingdom

March 23, 2022 at 10:06 am

[…] set of Kick-About-inspired panels derived from Vertigogo, a short animation made in response to the work of Saul […]

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Vertigogo / Panels #4 – Red's Kingdom

March 27, 2022 at 10:05 am

[…] final set of images from the short film, Vertigogo, which was inspired by the film posters and title sequences of Saul Bass, and produced for The […]

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