Bells of Atlantis

1972 Experimental film by Ian Hugo (Hugh Parker Guiler) starring Yass Hakashima and Renate Boué of the Yass Hakoshima Movement Theatre. Cinematography: Bob Hanson; Music: David Horowitz

The elements of Ai-Ye (Mankind), by the noted etcher & engraver Ian Hugo, consist of footage shot in various parts of the South American Coast. From this rich and ageless material he has created a beautiful, moving allegory of Man's universal story through the milleniums. This vivid, experimental documentary film has a sound accompaniment of drums and native chants improvised by Osbourne Smith.

Inspiration for Stan Brakhage's THE DEAD. Screened at 1958 Brussels Film Festival

experimental short

Experimental film by Ian Hugo

Existing in a liminal space, breasts float among various bodies of water. A literal description that doesn't do it justice...

Film by Ian Hugo.

A pulsating city symphony of light, movement, and electronic music, transforming Times Square in the 1950s into what Hugo’s wife, the writer Anaïs Nin, called "an ephemeral flow of sensations.”

A film study of Venice in all seasons, made from scenes shot from a gondola.

A film of two dimensions, the horizontal and the frontal, which are juxtaposed to introduce a third plane, the central. With sound and color, each plane depicts movements which portray the familiar sights of Venice.