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.

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

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

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

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

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

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual...

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

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through e...

Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and cr...

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...

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

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

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...

An abstract animated film, using computer and experimental techniques in choreographing quilt motifs...

16mm color work by Stan Vanderbeek that takes his work away from the cutups and the commentary and l...

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

袋 Fukuro (Japanese for "bag" or "sack") is a 3-minute short film from 2001. It features Pyramid Head...