Palatnik specifically tied his kinetic art to cinema. His Aparelho cinecromatico, from 1964, houses a series of colored lights and two motors set in motion by a programmed electric circuit board that sends signals to wood blades covered in canvas and anchored to wood blocks. With its black frame, the sculpture looks like a movie screen turned on its side, with the longer side running vertically. While its proportions thus recall traditional easel paintings, its moving imagery and title–a portmanteau of “kineti” and “color”–make its links to cinema more explicit.