Poster of Whale Songs

Whale Songs

Plot: Whale Songs, the ambitious final film in the period of Beams’s personal 16mm filmmaking, combines whale watching with depictions of the animation process itself. The film was hand-colored in negative color, then filmed on color-reversal stock and printed as a negative, contributing to the film’s singular look
Release Date: Monday, January 1 1979
45 years ago
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Portrait of Mary BeamsMary Beams
Mary Beams was
>> in Whale Songs
as 'Director'
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