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.

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

After Billy finds a winning scratch ticket, the gas station gets a new lottery machine that becomes ...

Jane Conger Belson Shimane's first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in N...

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen ...

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

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carniv...

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

"Mouris’s film, YOU’RE NOT REAL PRETTY BUT YOU’RE MINE…, built upon the strongest elements of QUICK ...

Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has b...

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

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

A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bris...

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

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...

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