Norman McLaren made Scherzo early after his arrival in North America in 1939, but the film was subsequently lost. In 1984 the original materials were found and the hand-drawn images and sound were reconstituted. Picture and sound dance triple-quick in this animated version of a musical scherzo. A film without words.
A man enters an old public bathhouse and dream of his father while under the spell of the elevated t...
A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.
Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray's work, full of shifting geometric shape...
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by mod...
During a long hot summer in the forest, Child is forced to grow up. First her Dog becomes ill, then ...
Believe it or not, esoteric film sages, i.e., Phil Solomon, are open to the possibilities of working...
This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation becam...
In this child's game, a live-action boy and girl draw characters and compete who is better. The girl...
For the production of this film, Oskar Fischinger tinted various layers of hot wax. After cooling, t...
Five years in the making, Lawrence Jordan's feature-length "alchemical autobiography" Sophie's Place...
An early experiment in employing computers to animate film. The result is a dazzling vibration of ge...
The tv/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. For 'ener...
This metaphorical surrealist tale is an allusion. NIGHTINGALES IN DECEMBER is a trip into the memori...
A trippy pop-art collage of phallic objects, naked women and American icons, most notably Elvis Pres...
Eye candy as a special treat. Let Your Light Shine is the ultimate Spectrum Short film, a photokinet...
A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its ab...
A 3D visual vapor release by James Webster.
Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.