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.

A journey to the origins of cinema, starting with its forgotten fathers: the pioneers who achieved m...

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures,...

Alex, a young woman bored with modern life, is lured by Bacchus into a colorful and mysterious world...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes. An abs...

Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that resul...

The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon,...

Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao, assembled from newspapers.

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminst...