Mushroom

All Souls Carnival

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked separately,

1957

Hand

The weird hand creatures undergo different transformations in synchrony with the music.

2021

A Dream...

A Dream... is an abstract, horror piece that explores the subconscious mind of modern, western man, touching on cultural guilt, self deception, and ma

2012

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. This e

2005

Drums West

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the m

1961

Shearing Animation

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

1962

Scope

This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue

2012

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 tooth

2009

Abstract feat. Alkama

Astract stop-motion short film using "lightning doodles" by Tochka.

2017

Enigma: Nazo

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious

1978

Divisional Articulations

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music an

2017

Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, such a project was beyond technological possibility

1913

Dimensions

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns.

2016

Silent Hill

Rose, a desperate mother, takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car

2006

Kaparamip

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

2018

High Voltage

High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.

1959

Shift

An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or p

2012

Mamori

Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals an

2010

Candle

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining frag

2021

Logos

Jane Conger Belson Shimane's first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The anima

1957