Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between light and darkness. Entirely composed of superimposed images of Tokyo’s landscape and water sites, the film takes its rhythm from the cycles of repetition that are the pillars of life and civilisation. As light emerges from the chaos, Jim O’Rourke’s ambient drone sets the tone for what is to come.

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something si...

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is on...

Astract stop-motion short film using "lightning doodles" by Tochka.

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring ...

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in...

Claire is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of a series of three ink-on-paper artworks created ...

This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue

This short experiments with the flow of oil ink over the surface of the water. Mizue manipulated the...

Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shad...

In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded wit...

A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, s...

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures,...

The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2...

High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his V...

An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' hei...

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three...