Quarteto de Parrondo(2021)

No. 11: Mirror Animations(en)

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

Street Musique(en)

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.

Isolation(en)

A meditation on isolation through paint textures, video collage and sound

Spheres(en)

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.

ASTRAKAN(pt)

LAND(en)

LAND is a fluid series of formal land animation experiments based upon the imprint of landscapes in various locations and intuitive interpretations of those movements. Shot in New York, Thimble Islands Bear Island, Connecticut, Armstrong Redwoods, Sonoma County, California, Hastings, England. note* (part of the EYE Filmmuseum Permanent Collection)

Concerto(en)

Short animation experiment drawn by Oskar Fischinger

Shadow(ja)

A political work in which Ko Nakajima opposes himself to the Vietnam War.

Macabre Metrics(ko)

A young, wannabe streetwear influencer dying to make an impact on the world gets a lot more than he bargained for when a shy but obsessive fan decides to help him become a star for his own gain at the expense of everyone else involved. Macabre Metrics is an almost feature-length, visually experimental exploration into the world of image culture set in Seoul. Shot entirely on iPhone with animated sequences.

Video Weavings(en)

Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes, or algorithms, visualized in real time on the warp and weft of video's horizontal and vertical scanning electron beams, color phosphors, plasma cells, and LCD pixels.

Englouties(fr)

Máquinas de palabras(es)

UNTITLED MENTAL EPISODE(en)

After an unproductive appointment, the Subject returns home as their bottled up emotions reach a boiling point.

Study No. 8(de)

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

Ci sono gli spiriti(it)

Short animation by Alvise Renzini inspired by a C.G. Jung's dream

Small World(en)

A teacher spends a day in their classroom where nothing is what it seems.

A Visual Poem(xx)

Surreal environments take center stage in this visual odyssey.

The Last Flight(en)

Life is a breath, a breath that while it is with us, always blows us around, allows us to do everything we do, live what we live.

Demons(pl)

Polish avant-garde animation in which a periodic series of aggressive starbursts interrupt the melodic dancing of fluid shapes, one raid even freezing the image for a moment.

A Paw Over Dark(en)

A washed up actor performs night after night in a grimy theater to a nearly empty audience. However, everything changes when a clueless dog jumps on stage.