1. 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.
2. Coloratura (Koloraturen)
Fischinger's abstract designs accompanied by Gitta Alpar singing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
3. Quando a noite ainda não existia (Quando a noite ainda não existia)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a trans body dreams of the birth of night.
4. 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.
5. Darwin's Darlings (Sliktie dzīvnieki)
Standing near the reptile section in a zoo for 26 minutes we can learn a lot about the animals on both sides of the separating glass.
6. 4to Piso (4to Piso)
(4to Piso)
7. The Tragedy of an Artist
The Tragedy of an Artist, is an experimental short shot over the course of a week. This film is meant to illustrate who Hero Foltz is as a person and his struggles with self identity
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
8. What Humans See as Blood, Jaguars See as Chicha (Lo que los humanos ven como sangre los jaguares ven como chicha)
In the rural desert of Bolivia, where the most important presence is the wind moving between papa flowers and animals, the people who harvest the land, those who built the ancient artifacts and sacred objects and the musicians who play moseñada – songs linked to the first products of the harvest – on the streets of the city have one point in common: labor. With a successful inclusion of stories of enchanted lakes, legends that pass from mouth to mouth – or from orality to audiovisual, in this case – and give a fantastic aura to those lands, Luciana Decker Orozco not only manages to capture life without oscillations . field, but resorts to the incessant movement of images and sound accompaniment to define a sensory and transcendental experience for the viewer.
9. Habitar (Habitar)
An oneiric moment in the contradictory sensations that arise when experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. Untitled (Pink Dot) (Untitled (Pink Dot))
In Untitled , Murata transforms footage from the Sylvester Stallone film First Blood into a morass of seething electronic abstraction. Subjected to Murata's meticulous digital reprocessing, the action scenes decompose and are subsumed into an almost palpable, cascading digital sludge, presided over by a hypnotically pulsating pink dot.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
11. and?
an experimental short shot completely in black and white and attempts a new technique.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
12. Feeler
16mm film by Paul Clipson, and music by Sarah Davachi. Filmed in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Brisbane, Krakow, Sidney, Portland, Napa, Oakland and San Francisco.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
13. 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.
14. Spheres
This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain reaction. The dance is set to the musical cadences of Bach, played by pianist Glenn Gould.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
15. 13 figures de Sarah Beauchesne au 71, rue Blanche (13 figures de Sarah Beauchesne au 71, rue Blanche)
(13 figures de Sarah Beauchesne au 71, rue Blanche)
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. All Star Video (電子の拓本)
A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
20. Maalbeek (Maalbeek)
Sabine is looking for a missing image: a day that has left its mark forever and that everyone remembers but her. But maybe this absence is what allows her to move on with her life?
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.