Gemini(2024)

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.

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.

No. 11: Mirror Animations(en)

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

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.

No. 7 Cherry Lane(zh)

Set in Hong Kong in 1967 — a time of complex politics when it was still a British colony — No. 7 Cherry Lane revolves around a love triangle between a university student, a single mother and her teenage daughter.

Love(tr)

A strange wire-fingered homunculus navigates through his dreams of different faces and faces, traversing a subliminal and endless variety. They are all different faces, but all have huge eyes that are questioned as to what keeps them apart, perhaps left broken by an impossible love.

Study No. 9(de)

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

Euphoria(en)

Consistent stylistic-thematic structures link and merge throughout the bewildering event chain. The distinction between organic forms and human artifacts is blurred by the visual style which is enigmatic without being ambiguous.

Shearing Animation(xx)

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

Drums West(en)

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 music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstrates his working method.

Desejo Expõe Suas Orbras (Desire's Exhibition)(pt)

With the aim of finding Desire, so-and-so performs a ritual to go down in the depths of himself.

HYPERSONIC Music Club(ja)

In 2017, a short anime film called Hypersonic Music Club was produced in Japan. It was directed and written by Osamu Kobayashi, a veteran of the industry who passed away in April 2021. For various reasons, this short anime was never released. It was made public on August 1, 2023.

Colours(xx)

Cores (Colours) is an experimental and independent animation by Clint Bones. Using Stop-Motion Animation, this film is about Palestine and their long combat with Israel. All that following a 60´s Psychedelia inspired visual.

AEOLUS(it)

Generation(en)

A brief journey through the human experience as seen by the eyes of an Artificial Intelligence.

behind the scenes(en)

An experimental documentary/animation hybrid exploring likeness scanning, AI, and what that means for identity.

Revelation To The Disembodied(en)

Fragments of a collective post-human dream construct a world that straddles hyper-technological, ecological, and mythological dimensions.

Faroeste(pt)

Short film made using cardboard cutouts of a classic Western scene

The Man Who Wrote About His Past(hu)

An experimental, non-sensical comedy about bringing a stone age man back to our time, made with the app “Plotagon”.

The Outsider(en)

Machinima-adaptation of Albert Camus book "L'étranger", done in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.