Acoustic Shadows

Cosmos of paint unleash a storm of color.

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

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

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

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

Short animated film by Kristian Pedersen

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

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

Experimental computer animation by Krzysztof Kiwerski

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

Flashing lights explode across an apartment as images of a naked woman in bed flicker in and out. Light paintings and projections illuminate a space of confrontation and an assault on the senses.

Life’s Musical Minute, recently re-discovered, is a short promotional film of this kind, based on Gene Krupa’s drum solo from “Golden Wedding” by the Woody Herman jazz band. It was Lye’s attempt to gain support from Life Magazine.

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

Abstract shapes morph in and out of focus.

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

An animated poem about a dog, her human, and the consequences of a nasty habit.

A combination of painting and contemporary ballet. What happens when the audience and staff have left the exhibition hall and the art begins to live its own life?

A fiddler's hand creates its own choreography is music is performed. This film is an attempt to share the dance. In the tradition and spirit of a Norman McLaren short, a light attached to a fiddle bow traces a dancing dot of light in darkness. The music was composed and is performed by Gordon Stobbe on fiddle and accompanied by Bill Doucette on guitar.

China’s irresistible process of growth and its precariousness.

Experimental animation film, with a visual focus on geometrical shapes and straight lines