Primit Too Taa

                  Colin Morton                           Ed Ackerman

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Fums bowo tazaa Uu
Uu zee Tee Wee Bee Fumms
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                              FummsbowotaaZaaUu    po
                            boworotaaZaaUu             pogiff
                           FummsbowotaaZaaUu    pogiff Kwiiiee                    Kwiiiee
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                               iiee miff tilff toooo
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Dedesnn nn rrrrr iiee miff tilff toooo tillll
Juu Kaa?
Primiti Too Taa
Nnz kkr muu
pggiv muu
Kwiiiee
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Ta Ta Ta Ta     Tuie Tuie
Ta Ta Ta Ta     Tuie Tuie
Ta Ta Ta Ta     Tuie Tuie
Ta Ta Ta Ta     Tuie Tuie
Ta Ta Ta Ta     Til La La La
Ta Ta Ta Ta     Til La La La
Ta Ta Ta Ta     Til La La La
Ta Ta Ta Ta     Til La La La
Til La La La     Tuie Tuie
Til La La La     Tuie Tuie
Til La La La     Tuie Tuie
Til La La La     Tuie Tuie
Til La La La     Tuie Tuie
Tui tui tui tui tui tui tui tui
tui tui tui tui tui tui tui tui
Primiti Too Taa
Nnz kkr muu
Pggiv muu
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee            Bo
Kwiiiee.

"Primiti Too Taa"
A 3 minute film by Ed Ackerman and Colin Morton following
the poetic footsteps of Kurt Schwitters, and the animated trail of Norman Mclaren.

Vancouver

Pacific Cinematheque

"See the Voice: Visible Verse 2006"

November 16 2006

Vancouver poet, author and singer, Heather Haley returns to Pacific Cinémathèque for our annual special evening

devoted to video poetry,a hybrid creative form that integrates spoken-word poetry with media-art visuals produced by a camera or a computer.

Toronto 2006

Harbourfront
Sunday July 30, 3pm, 90 mins

Rockstar Nicole Shimonek
Springtime In Greenland John Paizs
History of the Hogline Ian Handford
Primiti Too Ta Ed Ackerman Colin Morton
Lost Bundefjord Matt Holm
Love In the White City Clive Holden
Bannock Darryl Nepinak
Regarding Albert Dave Twigg
Direction Heidi Phillips
Queer Grit Roewan Crowe
The Architect Rick Fisher

January 6 - March 5, 2006

Portland Oregon

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

BIG Shorts OMNIMAX 70mm

IMAX Animation Film Festival

in conjunction with the Northwest Film Study Centers 2006 International Film Festival.

Films include IMAX®

Slit-Scan,

Arthur C. Clark's Search for Infinity,

Primiti-Too-Taa,

The Old Man and the Sea, and

Where The Trains Used to Go (agreement pending).

http://www.omsi.edu/visit/omnimax/showdetail.cfm?ID=34&status=Coming%20Soon

Vancouver

December 17th - June 30th

Extra Large Shorts!
The best short features on IMAX

Where the Trains used to Go is the first Norwegian film in IMAX format.
It is a 4.5 minute, magic, animated journey along the remains of a 100 year old narrow-gauge railway.
The Straw that Breaks the Camel's Back was commissioned by the government of the
Netherlands, especially for the sixth UN World Conference on Climate Change.
PRIMITI TOO TAA is a three minute sound poem, which comes alive on the screen as
words and letters pop on and off, swirling and dancing in a rhythmic beat with the spoken soundtrack.
Pandorama is a witty, contemporary interpretation of the myth of Pandora's Box.
Created without a camera, this film consists of over 2,500 images hand-drawn, scratched,
painted, and rubber-stamped directly on clear leader and junk footage.
Old Man and the Sea ......Academy Award Winner......
Falling in Love Again is a large-format, animated short based on Marlene Dietrich's
classic song

http://www.scienceworld.ca/whats_on/omnimax_theatre/now_playing/extralargeshorts.htm

December 3, 2005

Kosmopolis 05

FESTA INTERNACIONAL DE LA LITERATURA

Barcelona

http://www.cccb.org/kosmopolis/web05/eng/index.htm

April 5, 2005

15ème Festival d’Auch

Paris

with

Les Locataires d'à côté d’Émile Cohl
Pas de deux de Norman Mc Laren
Les spectateurs de Raimund Krumme
Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve d’Alexandre Alexeieff & Claire Parker
Etre mort ou vivant, c’est la même chose de Gianluiggi Toccafondo
Impressions en haute atmosphère de Juan Antonio Sistiaga
Les Shadoks (1er épisode de la 1ère série) de Jacques Rouxel
Primiti Too Taa d’Ed Ackerman & Colin Morton

December 11 à 15h 2004

Paris

Forum des Images, Forum des Halles, porte Saint-Eustache, place Carrée

The conteuse one and singer Michele Baczynsky involves the toddlers (3 years minimum nevertheless) in a pretty cartoon film program, "Pig dancer", a dumb man of 1907 - a pig dances there on the letters of the alphabet - in "Traviata" of Guionne Leroy (1997). While passing through "Mr. Strauss Takes has Walk", of George Pal (1942), "the Blackbird", a jewel of Norman McLaren (1958), "the Magpie robber", of Emmanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini (1964) and "Primiti too taa", of ED Ackerman and Colin Morton (1988).

October 1, 2004

Winnipeg

Art Sonic UMFM fundraiser

October 15, 2004

Zed TV

August 20-22 9:00 pm 2004

Winnipeg Cinemateque

playing with: Word Wars by Eric Chaikin and Julian Petrillo

July 10, 2004

Winnipeg Folk Festival

March 5, 2004

Zed TV

April 8, 2004

Form des Images

Paris

Carte blanche à la cinéaste Wendy Tilby en sa présence et accompagnée d'Amanda Forbis.

February 25, 2004

Wendy Tilby’s Carte Blanche

Cinemateque Ontario

February 6, 2004

Winnipeg Independent Animation

Winnipeg Film Group Cinemateque

March 20, 2003

Zed TV

August 8 2002
Hannover
Ontario
Presented by
THE GREY ZONE COLLECTIVE
& THE DURHAM ART GALLERY
Program ONE
Thursday August 8, 9pm
Hanover Drive-In Theatre, Side Road south of Zellers
Program One, 35mm
Thursday August 8 2002 9pm, Hanover Drive-In

Ditty Dot Comma by Steven Woloshen, 3 min. COL 2001
Hawkesville to Wallenstein by Richard Kerr, 6 min. B&W 1977
Leaving The Poisons Behind by Iris Paabo, 7 min. COL 1991
Soul Cages by Phillip Barker, 23 min. COL 1999
Primiti Too Taa by Ed Ackerman Co-director: Colin Morton, 3 min. B&W 1986:
Before It Blows by Patricia Gruben, 8.5 min. COL. 1997
Waterworx (A Clear Day And No Memories) by Rick Hancox, 6 min. COL 1982
Interviews With My Next Girlfriend by Cassandra Nicolaou, 13 min. COL 2001
Prelude by Michael Snow, 3.5 min. COL 2000
Subrosa by Helen Lee, 22 min. COL
Linear Dreams by Richard Reeves, 7 min. COL 1997
The Offering by Paul Lee, 10 min. COL 1999
Fabulous Festival of Fringe

June 6 2002
Annecy
CARTE BLANCHE A WENDY TILBY / PANIQUE AU VILLAGE!
Primiti too taa est le seul court métrage d'animation en machine à écrire. Des séquences de
syllabes issues d'un poème sonore sont dites et retranscrites à l'écran en lettres d'imprimerie. Je ne
sais pas quel est le but premier, mais placé dans notre contexte, c'est très drôle! Moi, si j'étais
bébé, je ferais de l'art primitif... Leeeeeeee.

Primiti too taa is only short film of animation out of typewriter. Sequences of syllables resulting
from a sound poem are said and retranscribed with the screen in letters of printing works. I do not
know what a is the goal first, but placed in our context, it is very funny! Me, if I were baby, I would
make primitive art... Leeeeeeee.

16mm version
Vancouver
January 17 9:00 pm
Pacific Cinematheque

The 70mm Imax version of "Primiti Too Taa"
Chicago
Friday Sept 14 7:40 pm (print did not arrive)
Saturday Sept 15 7:40 pm (print did not arrive)
Saturday Sept 22 7:40 pm (yes)
Friday Sept 28 7:40 pm (yes)
Saturday Sept 29 7:40 pm (yes)
Friday October 5 7:40 pm (yes)
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
57th Street and Lake Shore Drive, 60637
35 mm version of "Primiti Too Taa" and "Two Taa Too"
Porto, Portugal
September 24 and 25th

Special thanks to Marco DeBlois,
curator of animation at the Cinémathèque Québécoise.
for making an arrangement of Independent Canadian Animation in Porto Portugal.
"Retrospectiva da Animação Canadiana"
at the Casa da ANIMAÇÃO

"Primiti Too Taa"
Um Film de três minutos realizado por Ed Ackerman e Colin Morton,
seguinao os passos de Kurt Schwitters e Norman McLaren. Kurt Schwitters at Zero Gravity
- Colin Morton
Foi em 1974 lendo o livro "Dada: Art and Anti - Art", que eu aprendi que
"a base da poesìa não é a palavra mas a letra". A revolta que ele começou

por causa dos seus murmuros, assobiar e lamúrias, dizendo a letra W. A que
mais ficou na memoria foi a imagem de Schwitters que passeava pelas estradas
- qualquer estradas, qualquer tempo - do dia apanhando bocaditos, de papel
bocaditos de latas, qualquer coisa para fazer uma "collage" no futuro.

Nonsense translation experiment
right here.
(but what does it mean?)

Kurt Schwitters at Zero Gravity

- Colin Morton

(This article first appeared in Musicworks 44 in 1989.)

It was in 1974, reading Hans Richter's book Dada: Art and

Anti-Art, that I first learned about Kurt Schwitters, his provocative statement "The basis of poetry is not the word but the letter," and the uproar he caused by whispering, whistling, whimpering, wailing the

letter W. What really stuck in my memory, though, was the image of Schwitters walking down the street - any street, any time of day - picking up discarded bits of paper, lace, machine parts, can lids, whatever, for future use in a collage. More

The Making of the Making of

A Film: Primiti Too Taa

by Colin Morton
IN 'LIFE CLASSES,' I was one of those who thought the story was
too corny: after twenty years of painting by numbers the young
woman's first student charcoal sketches become a one-woman show.
Life isn't like that, I said to myself; Art isn't. But life is
more like that than I can sometimes believe. It happened to me. More.

Experimental Films for the Masses

-Ed Ackerman

(This article first appeared in Cinema Canada October 1988)

I am a filmmaker trying to make a living from my own

experimental films. While trying to research and write

an article for Bruce McDonald about short film distribution

in Canada I was given the following advice: "Get a day job.

Make films with Arts Council money. An experimental

film cannot pay for itself. "

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Questions and Answers
August answers
Question : (Ed) Exactly!
Question: (Ed) Not exactly. The way Colin Morton explained it to me is that Ursonate is a sound poem, not a nonsense poem. "'Twas brillig and the slithy toves" etc. is a nonsense poem. I have been calling "Primiti Too Taa a nonsense poem for a decade oops! The text does not make sense. It is a guide to how to what the poem should sound like. Yet some of the sounds, sound like words that have meaning, but put together are nonsense. Does that make sense?
Question : (Ed) The film "Primiti Too Taa" is at the intersection of many forms. The film "Primiti Too Taa" is a playful sound poem, where the text jumps to life through animated typing on paper. Visually the film is a concrete poem in motion: choreography. Aurally the film is a sound poem with a printed text, typography. Constructivist poetry meets literal choreography. Primitive sounds meet their typed representation. The film is based on a 45 minute sound poem. "Ur-sonate" (Sonata for Primitive Sounds) by Kurt Schwitters. The film is larva in memory of Kurt Schwitters (Artist Poet 1887-1948), under the influence of Norman McLaren. The Kurt Schwitters connection. The poem "Primiti Too Taa" does not exist, on page 30 of "The Merzbook".

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