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.

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

In an indeterminate future, forbidden memories challenge a database containing all human memories. A...

From Malkuth to Kether and back, the whole spin of the wheel. A retelling of a series of dreams and ...

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...
After having been given kitchen equipment, four friends Terry, Evie, Kato, and Kina crash at Grandma...

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerabilit...

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something si...

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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