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...
To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smok...
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...
In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Ad...
The mutating forms of Tensai Banpaku, or “Genius Expo” create a stunning abstract orchestra.
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...
In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded wit...
In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and...
An abstract film on the music 'Unfinished' 8th Symphony, part 1, by Franz Schubert by Oerd van Cuijl...
She's here. She comes closer. Is she in front of me? Now she, by herself, becomes her.
This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.
Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures,...
A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is playe...
An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.