Times Square Filming Locations

Times Square is an experimental abstract meditation on urban shapes and sounds. It was a collaboration by Jules Engel, head of the Experimental Animation Department at California Institute of the Arts and his teaching assistant and student, Joanna Priestley. Times Square was made with a keyboard and a Cubicomp and IBM-AT, using Lumena, Easel and PC-10 software. Digital images on a computer monitor were shot onto 16mm film using a tripod mounted Bolex camera, pointed at the monitor. Co-directors Engel and Priestley were in the first computer animation class at Cal Arts (1984-85), taught by Vibeke Sorensen.