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. 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.
3. A Love Letter to Cinema
An experimental sampled film which shows the pleasurable art of movies about movies through scenes inside of theaters.
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. Aquarelles
Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.
6. Vulcania (Vulcania)
Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.
7. Acoustic Shadows (Ombres acoustiques)
This project moves sound and image using wind movements. It shows the alteration of spectrograms with these motion vectors and applies a sound resynthesis.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. & More (& More)
A sparkling geometric play of shapes and forms in the M+ Museum of Hong Kong.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
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. Zolle Resign
Short animated film by Kristian Pedersen