1. A Love Letter to Cinema
An experimental sampled film which shows the pleasurable art of movies about movies through scenes inside of theaters.
2. Beyond Picasso
Schwartz reordered and combined angular contours, broken planes, and distorted proportions in her own pictorial structures in an homage to Picasso's style.
3. Zolle Resign
Short animated film by Kristian Pedersen
4. Generation
A brief journey through the human experience as seen by the eyes of an Artificial Intelligence.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
5. bbrraattss
motion capture choreography simulated against motion capture choreography
6. Where Empty Shells Hide
Someone stuck inside a shell struggling to find a safe space.
7. O/S (O/S)
Taking inspiration from 20th-century avant-garde experiments in graphical sound generation, the entire image in O/S functions as an optical soundtrack. Abstract motion becomes sound.
8. Electronic Masks
Short experimental video art by Barbara Sykes.
9. Touch
What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and distancing? We think we touch things, that we can take other people by the hand, but physics tells us quite another story.
10. Everybody Dies
Utilizing super 8mm and an economical shooting method of quick, short shots building idiosyncratic rhythms via rapid editing techniques, time, nature, and even the body folds in on itself. Everybody Dies is a poetic journey into the desert. It’s a reflection on the nature of death as something not to be feared, but embraced as a part of a personal and universal human experience. Super 8mm.
11. Obmaru
"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she found herself in the midst of fascinating non-objective painting and filmmaking activity. She was greatly influenced by the work of Harry Smith and Jordan Belson, and changed her own style to non-objective, receiving graphic inspiration from Jungian brain drawings, symbols in the occult sciences, and the design used by Eastern cultures, all of which being important elements in the San Francisco school mystical school of non-objective art." -Robert Pike, A Critical Study of the West Coast Experimental Film Movement. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
12. High Voltage
High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
13. Bermuda Triangle (Koło bermudzkie)
The box from the film strip becomes an arbitrary plot of action relating to the mysterious phenomena taking place in the Bermuda Triangle. Experimental short by Jerzy Kalina.
14. Thunderstruck
Flashing lights explode across an apartment as images of a naked woman in bed flicker in and out. Light paintings and projections illuminate a space of confrontation and an assault on the senses.
15. Cineforms (Kineformy)
Abstract shapes morph in and out of focus.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
16. 1-39-C (1-39-C)
Polish avant-garde animation with changing colors and shapes that suggest birth followed by heavy distortion and building to a face in the swamp.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
17. Study No. 5 (Study No. 5)
An abstract ballet set to "I've Never Seen a Smile Like Yours".
18. Coloratura (Koloraturen)
Fischinger's abstract designs accompanied by Gitta Alpar singing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
19. Dantes Traum von der Hölle (Dantes Traum von der Hölle)
An attempt to bring texts from Dante's "Divine Comedy" to life. Nine episodes from the Inferno with a concluding episode from the Purgatorio.
20. Evolution of the Red Star
Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master image is formed, this continuously throbbing, pulsating sight is used to ring changes based on years of optical work. Music and picture work together to create a mood of ecstatic tranquility. The bright colors, beautiful music, surprise at the end, etc. make this a good film for young children. Awards: Sinking Creek Film & Video Festival, 1973; Washington National Student Film Festival, 1974; Brooklyn Independent Filmmakers Exposition, 1974; Vanguard Int'l Competition of Electronic Music for Film, 1974; Humboldt Film Festival, 1974. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.