Movie · 1966 · 8 min

Aleph (1966)

6.3/10 · 6 votes

Aleph is a 1966 movie (Animation). Aleph was directed by Wallace Berman. Aleph runs 8 minutes. It has an average rating of 6.3/10 from 6 viewers. There is currently no known legal streaming option for Aleph in United States. Check back later or switch your region.

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Plot

“Aleph” is an artist’s meditation on life, death, mysticism, politics, and pop culture. In an eight-minute loop of film, Wallace Berman uses Hebrew letters to frame a hypnotic, rapid-fire montage that captures the go-go energy of the 1960s. Aleph includes stills of collages created using a Verifax machine, Eastman Kodak’s precursor to the photocopier. These collages depict a hand-held radio that seems to broadcast or receive popular and esoteric icons. Signs, symbols, and diverse mass-media images (e.g., Flash Gordon, John F. Kennedy, Mick Jagger) flow like a deck of tarot cards, infinitely shuffled in order that the viewer may construct his or her own set of personal interpretations. The transistor radio, the most ubiquitous portable form of mass communication in the 1960s, exemplifies the democratic potential of electronic culture and may serve as a metaphor for Jewish mysticism.