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.

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

Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation draws the eye down to the small gate of the camera. From there,...

A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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