1. Scope (Scope)
This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue
2. Blend (Blend)
This short experiments with the flow of oil ink over the surface of the water. Mizue manipulated the ink by blowing with straws or stirring with toothpicks and used stop motion animation techniques to shoot the resulting effects.
3. No. 11: Mirror Animations
Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
4. Kaparamip (Kaparamip)
Abstract animation by Boris Labbé
5. Tetarape (Tetarape)
Abstract animation by Boris Labbé
6. Bloodlust (Blutrausch)
An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which is a film projector with optical sound. He affixed his blood onto clear film leader by cutting into the flesh and then pressing the film leader onto the wound. Additionally he had blood taken with a syringe and afterwards dripped it on the film leader. fresh and clotted blood was used.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
7. Street Musique
Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than that of the musicians. The illustrations range from convoluted abstractions to caricatures of familiar rituals. Without words.
It has an average vote of 6.824 on TMDB.
8. Cineforms (Kineformy)
Abstract shapes morph in and out of focus.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
9. Life's Musical Minute
Life’s Musical Minute, recently re-discovered, is a short promotional film of this kind, based on Gene Krupa’s drum solo from “Golden Wedding” by the Woody Herman jazz band. It was Lye’s attempt to gain support from Life Magazine.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
10. 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.
11. An Abstract Day
Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a couple, who fight, make love and escape the hot and crowded city. It is a simple story in which the visuals and sound are produced together to merge into a unique world.
12. P/S (P/S)
A minimalist optical sound meditation on simplicity and repetition building complex arrangements of audio-visual oneness, where the most basic geometric shapes draw intricate visual and sonic patterns.
13. Electronic Masks
Short experimental video art by Barbara Sykes.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Shift
An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or predict the end of the world.
17. Trip!-Trap! (Trip!-Trap!)
In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light. An expression of a chaotic world.</p><p> This experimental graduation film is a mixture of different animation techniques
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
18. Aquarelles
Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.
19. Here and There (Tam i tu)
Propulsive Polish avant-garde animation following clouds of shapes that resemble nebulae or stellar surfaces.
It has an average vote of 4.8 on TMDB.
20. Thermogenesis
"A film version of a videotape. In it my drawings are animated and colorized by using computers. Walter Wright and Richard Froeman were on the computers. John Godfrey helped with the video editing. I did the sound score. The original tape was done on 2" high-band color videotape, two computers, a Paik-Abe video-synthesizer, with studio chroma-keying and multi-generation video editing." A version of Computer Graphics #1, one of Emshwiller's very first video works.