Avant

"Beyond Noh" rhythmically animates 3,475 individual masks from all over the world, beginning with the distinctive masks of the Japanese Noh theater and continuing on a cultural journey through ritual, utility, deviance, and politics.

Derived from an installation, an asymmetrical orchestration of "motion paintings" pushing the limits of abstraction in the digital age.

A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things.

Village, like a human being, is born out of love. Village, like a human being, is ruined, if left without love.

Film poem created with the wild flowers that grow along the shore of the Laira estuary, the tidal mouth of the River Plym, on the southwest coast of Britain. The petals and leaves stream past as the haunting soundscape ebbs and flows.

Fantaisie érotique

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.

A dedicated bird watcher observes a hawk and journeys to the limits of what it means to be human.

Deep-sea organisms living in such a specific environment have developed unusual forms and properties. This is an interpretation of the underwater world and an invitation to relax.

Threnody emphasises some of the madness and instability of a year filled with fires, infections and general disarray.

A line is being extrapolated through a grid. When the line surpasses the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to and reflects on its surroundings. Beyond each boundary the extrapolation of movement is causing deformation in a systematic but speculative way.

Blind evolution. Seemingly arbitrary stages of the evolution in black-and-white drawings on rough paper.

An elegy to a love affair that has gone sour, a fond farewell to that most beautiful material that has subjugated our planet – plastic.

A destructive sequence with infinite consequences.

Square

Iwasaki’s ink oscillates like an evil lava lamp that might actually be alive and its progression into more and more disturbing images create an impressive sense of dread in a film that is basically just some pencil drawings on a blank background. (Film School Rejects)

A non-narrative film thematising the eternal struggle of human life in a series of scenes connected by associations and accompanied by a strong music motif.

A musical animated film which celebrates the simple and childish joy of hitting drums, scribbling on paper using marker pens, splashing paint or making cracked cymbals screech.

Birds singing. Alarm clock. Coffee. What’s next? A trip outside? Or a trip inside? This film is a breathing meditation, wrapped in the disguise of a feather-light experimental drawing animation.

In 2013, the Apache helicopter's targeting systems were updated from standard definition black and white to high-resolution color video, touted as a boost to pilot safety and U.S. military dominance.