Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light and shadow that pulsates off the screen into our physical space with blinding intensity. The presence of light is almost felt as we are sucked into the image to become its ghostly accomplice. As we leave the theatre, the optical vibrations continue to haunt us.

2021-09-09 | de

Keep on Turning

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

1972-01-01 | xx

_ImEdge

A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree.

2018-01-01 | en

VIVAldi VVinter

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

2018-02-22 | en

Twilight

An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors.

2019-07-16 | en

Let X Equal X

A sequence of hand-drawn experiments. Constants: visualist, technology, run time. Independent variables: musician, drawing materials, theme. Dependent variables: you tell me!

2019-07-16 | en

Trans/Figure/Ground

A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital.

2016-07-16 | en

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 symbols) converging towards the centre of the screen.

1978-07-12 | ja

A Day In LC

A person living in Liberty City goes to work, have some food & gets back home.

2024-10-26 | en

Divisional Articulations

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music and geometric digital animation collide in an electronic feedback loop, spawning arrays of divisional articulations in time and space.

2017-05-24 | en

Perspectrum

In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and re-form to the sound of the koto, a 13-stringed Japanese instrument.

1975-01-01 | en

D'art moderne

1977-01-01 | fr

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 animated film featured an electronic score by Henry Jacobs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.

1957-07-07 | en

Son of the White Mare

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.

1981-10-22 | hu

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, preferring to see if the score and visual track would synchronise by chance. Lye also experimented with a new Direct Film technique, drenching the filmstrip in colourful paint and marker pen.

1957-03-03 | en

Lost Utopia

The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words.

2007-01-01 | ja

Flesh Flows

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement] returns to itself and rushes to catch up with its successor.” (Gadassik) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

1974-09-01 | en

Ciciri

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

2018-12-17 | fr

Kaparamip

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

2018-12-17 | fr

Tetarape

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

2018-12-17 | fr