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.

In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and...

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual...

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in thi...

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate text...

From the film-almanac on musical works of classics for children "Children's Album". A little film ab...

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...

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

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through e...

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

袋 Fukuro (Japanese for "bag" or "sack") is a 3-minute short film from 2001. It features Pyramid Head...

Ki-No-Ko is a surreal five-minute short film published on Art of Silent Hill, Lost Memories: The Art...

An abstract film on the music 'Unfinished' 8th Symphony, part 1, by Franz Schubert by Oerd van Cuijl...

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. W...

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

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...

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...