Scott Bartlett’s film OffOn (1967) — screening in its original 16mm format on Wed. April 14, 2010 — is a pioneering work of both visual music and electronic cinema, fusing film and video in a way never before achieved.  Regardless of the intellectual folderol , it is an extraordinarily powerful (and psychedelic) piece of filmmaking on its own merits.

In 1980, while teaching at UCLA, Bartlett led a class of students in crafting a “remake” of the original, using many of the original elements and some of the same TV studio techniques and technology that was then still lingering, but soon to become obsolete and lost to the march of time.

Here is a short documentary produced at the time, depicting the process of making that 1980 recreation. A 16mm print of this documentary can be rented for public exhibition from The Film-makers’ Cooperative.