She was the nymph who found refuge in the river reeds when the goat-god Pan pursued her. Syrinx is the first film of Ryan Larkin, a young artist from Norman McLaren’s student group. To illustrate the ancient Greek legend of how Pan made his pipes, he employs various charcoal sketches. Accompanying music is Claude Debussy’s Syrinx for solo flute.
A lonely, recluse sculptor must confront his inner turmoil and reckon with his romantic desires when...
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to c...
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-G...
Pioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger, uses this technique in a retelling of the Greek leg...
Long ago in the Iron Age, a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations, the village youths...
In a montage alternating with moments of Nigel Rogers' interpretation of the most beautiful passages...
What if the original myth was a lie?
Olympus. Here are all the most important gods: mighty Zeus, his treacherous wife Hera, handsome sing...
The cunning king Polidekt of the island of Serif sends the young hero Perseus to get the head of Gor...
The story of the titan Prometheus, who stole fire from Olympus for people and was severely punished ...
Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to g...
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims we...
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her p...
Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god o...
A homoerotic exploration of the Odyssey mixing black and white, color, and old film clips.
In Greek mythology, there were colossal creatures with fifty heads and a hundred arms. In the manner...