A girl is faced with the feeling of losing someone she once loved and the need for this person to try to make amends for the mess that remains after severing a bond.
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An abstract animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the iotaCenter, in 2007.
One of Rimmer's early 2000s video works which he made by hand-painting 35mm film, running it on a flatbed viewer, and shooting it off the screen with a video camera to then subject it to further manipulation.
A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.
In this short film, a young man, a girl and a dog attempt to fly with wings more symbolic than practical.
Dilution is an experimental short film that explores the transit between resistance and (di)ssolution, between holding and releasing and a path towards obsessive repetition. They are layers, exposed pores, matter that oscillates between remaining or disappearing. The sound is not a background, but a puncture: friction, tearing, water that drags what still persists. A sensorial testimony of what refuses to vanish completely.
A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
Composed entirely of AI-generated visuals and providing an abstract representation of the evolution of AI video, processed entirely through a VCR.
An homage to the influential practice and philosophy of artist Nasreen Mohamedi. The film incorporates Mohamedi’s personal notes and her unique singular vision, drawing upon the aesthetics of the bare line, and its metaphysical journey eliminating physical borders/barriers.
"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray Studios New York, which was the dominant animation studio based in the United States in the years surrounding World War I.
The film is based on a Canadian NRI Punjabi, who goes far away from his religion. Due to his busy work schedule he fails to give time to his family and teach his child about his culture and Sikh religion. He comes to Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab along with his family to reconnect with his ancestral roots, culture, tradition. His grandmother tells about the entire history of martyrdom of Chote Sahibzadas and Mata Gujri.
"We Go Past Future" is an experimental paper collage film by Anna Malina. The film reimagines a series of Soviet films from 1919 to 1953, blending them into a unique visual narrative.
While non-binary representations are rare, Lou talks about their relationship to gender, clothes, and other markers.
In EIN TRAUM DER LIEBENDEN [A DREAM OF LOVERS], Monk meanders through a maze of Minoan bull-leaping, satyrs and revelatory rainbows.
A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not changed: all the streets are frozen, long-gone voices can be heard in the empty rooms and around the corner you can find yourself in a video game from your childhood.
The strange Journey of a butterfly through the dreamscapes of Alesia's dream.
"Light animation and original poetry in this initiatic journey by Dennis Pies, who is now known as Sky-David." - Daily Psychedelic. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
The enduring romance of the lines. A visual exploration of Dave Brubeck's jazz classic "Take Five".
A parlor full of bon vivants pass around an enchanted pair of spectacles that “reveal the personality and pleasures of the one who wears them.”
A night in the life of two blacklight gossip queens in the year 2999.
A synthesis of sound and movement; colourful characters dance and move in repetitive patterns to percussive and melodic elements. A combination of motion and music that is hypnotic and beautiful. At first it feels structured and orderly but as more elements are added becomes quixotically expressive.