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.

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

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

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

Claire is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of a series of three ink-on-paper artworks created ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is playe...

She's here. She comes closer. Is she in front of me? Now she, by herself, becomes her.