A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, such a project was beyond technological possibility. His pioneering efforts to combine luminous, expressive painting and the moving picture were further curtailed by the outbreak of WWI. Some have taken it upon themselves to 'animate' his watercolor plates in attempts to set his dream into motion.
Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.
An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) ...
Lulu the dog gets a job at the local convenience store and stays up all night cleaning the back room...
The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able ...
Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate text...
Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decor...
Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carniv...
Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely cho...
This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is on...
An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through e...
A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three...
This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen ...
Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in...
16mm color work by Stan Vanderbeek that takes his work away from the cutups and the commentary and l...
A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bris...
Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures,...
An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.
Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation fr...
A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its d...