Sounds Good (2019)
A boom operator attempts to record the noise mushrooms make in this semi-experimental animation inspired by the world of sounds.
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Heavy-Light (1973)
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Prelude 14 (1996)
Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns and grays and shapes most rock-like, all of which is then shot-thru with sufficient yellow to break up all hard-edge form and give a molten aspect to the mixtures of shapes.
The Room (1967)
A small white box. Everything happens in that little world. A woman's face comes out from the side of the room and roars, birds peck at human flesh, trains run through, and a couple quarrel begins. When the billiard ball penetrates the room, the billiard ball changes into various shapes ... Each room is a world, and what happens there is a microcosm of modern times.
Walking Man (2002)
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Reflets (1961)
Moonlight reflected in water: the forms and lines are continually rearranged by the currents.
Continu-discontinu (1959)
Piotr Kamler meets Luc Ferrari & Iannis Xenakis. A play of opposites: space, colour, forms, movements
Danse (1961)
A dialogue of forms, colours and movements follow a rhythm which is both plastic and musical.
Around Perception (1968)
An early experiment in employing computers to animate film. The result is a dazzling vibration of geometric forms in vivid color, an effect achieved by varying the speed at which alternate colors change, so producing optical illusions. In between these screen pyrotechnics appears a simple line form gyrating in smooth rhythm. Sound effects are created by registering sound shapes directly on the soundtrack of the film.
2005 Space Odyssey (2005)
Experimental short film by Michio Mihara.
Dilema I: Burundanga boricua (1990)
Combines animation, documentary footage, and hand-painted film as well as slide projections, a painted 12" x 24" backdrop, and sculptural palm tree to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Puerto Rican psyche.
You Take Care Now (1989)
You Take Care Now, an early student film, is a perfect exemplar of Ann Marie Fleming's idiosyncratic vision and stands as one of her signature works. Made on 16mm, and incorporating found footage, original material, animation, and processed images (Vancouver's groundbreaking avant-garde cinema of the 1970s is a decided influence here), Fleming's film offers a visually dazzling, emotionally wrenching, oddly humorous account of two profound personal traumas.
TENSAI BANPAKU (2014)
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Silent (2014)
A duo of street performers learns how sound and picture work together to create amazing cinema experiences.
Bath House of Whales (2019)
Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her mother with dazzling sensuous wonder. Evoking childish fascination at daily rituals, this quotidian act amidst feminine intimacy becomes a space of otherworldly fantasy.
Winter (1964)
Impressions on the topic of plastics set to Vivaldi's Winter: blizzard, dancing moons, beats ice, sparkling silver crystals, petrified wood frozen.
Neverwhere (1968)
A meek office worker finds himself flung into a fantasy world as a naked muscleman. An early version of the Den character, known from the comic magazine Heavy Metal and the movie by the same name.
La Maison en Petits Cubes (2008)
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The Adventures of * (1957)
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Plane Crazy (1929)
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Photodiary '87 (1987)
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