Billy Doucette's Hornpipe

Cosmos of paint unleash a storm of color.

The box from the film strip becomes an arbitrary plot of action relating to the mysterious phenomena taking place in the Bermuda Triangle. Experimental short by Jerzy Kalina.

An attempt to bring texts from Dante's "Divine Comedy" to life. Nine episodes from the Inferno with a concluding episode from the Purgatorio.

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

Propulsive Polish avant-garde animation following clouds of shapes that resemble nebulae or stellar surfaces.

Abstract shapes morph in and out of focus.

Experimental computer animation by Krzysztof Kiwerski

Fischinger's abstract designs accompanied by Gitta Alpar singing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

An abstract ballet set to "I've Never Seen a Smile Like Yours".

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

China’s irresistible process of growth and its precariousness.

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.

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

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.

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

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

Utilizing super 8mm and an economical shooting method of quick, short shots building idiosyncratic rhythms via rapid editing techniques, time, nature, and even the body folds in on itself. Everybody Dies (2020) is a poetic journey into the desert. It’s a reflection on the nature of death as something not to be feared, but embraced as a part of a personal and universal human experience. Super 8mm.

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

Short animated film by Kristian Pedersen

Schwartz reordered and combined angular contours, broken planes, and distorted proportions in her own pictorial structures in an homage to Picasso's style.