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“This 60 minute electronic fantasy featuring computer animation can control and change your moods of elation and tranquility. To change or enhance your mood, simply play a musical selection that accompanies your present feeling - its mesmerising! The abstract colorised computer animated visuals are artfully paced with their complimentary sound track. Images explode with colour while sooting with flowing shapes and rhythms, Great for parties or individual contemplation.”

Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.

An animated short film.

In this short animation based on an Inuit legend, a goose captures the fancy of an owl, a weakness for which he will pay dearly. The sound effects and voices are Inuktitut, but the animation leaves no doubt as to the unfolding action. A story with the wry humor characteristic of many Inuit tales.

A Playground for Baboosh...

This documentary on the creation of Red Grooms’ sculpture The Discount Store was commissioned by the Walker Art Center for the exhibition Figures and Environments which ran from May 15 to June 13, 1970 in Dayton’s Auditorium.

A sequel to the short film "Trajan and Decebal" and is based on the myth about Dochia, the daughter of Decebalus.

Children's animation short by Ryszard Antoniszczak.

Based on the Greek myth of Narcissus and Echo, Foldes employed live-action photography and visual feedback synthesizers from France's Computer Image Corporation to tell the tale in a disquieting, psychedelic manner.

Designed to make children aware of the unique functions human teeth perform and the importance of good dental safety habits.

"[P]ortraits of three women in the characteristic Foldes style: Sibylle, the psychedelic woman, Flora, the flower woman, Bilitis, the happy woman." - MIFF

About a mole who unexpectedly discovered a wonderful world on the surface of the earth.

DIAGRAM FILM alternates shots of planes, cars and people walking with comically elaborate moving diagrams of them. And sometimes it reverses itself, as when a group of triangles is replaced by a shot of tepees. The diagrams head off into fantastic Rube Goldberg machine movements, with details undergoing constant transformation.

A girl and the peculiar interaction with her doll.

A photograph of Aihara’s grandmother, overlapped with a tranquil documentary style animation of her life ending at her funeral scene.

Life and human relationships are becoming more like one big circus. In fact, it's not always a circus within a circus, or something more about relationships between people.

A succession of visual emotions in a sort of “filmed rotogravure,” where sequences and segments follow an ironic and dramatic logic that highlights the obsessions, the poverty, and the myths that shook the neoconsumerist society of those years. This approach frames, but at the same time transcends, pure reportage, venturing into a reflection on the meaning of seeing and imagining. The techniques employed range from direct rotoscope to works-in-progress, from citationism to photographic contamination.

Local Minneapolis based filmmaker Kathleen Laughlin's short experimental film follows her sister on a spirited excursion through a tall August cornfield about to be harvested.

Betye Saar’s film Colored Spade is an assemblage of derogatory images gradually replaced with depictions of African-American power and solidarity. The film explores Saar’s interest in deconstructing historical and political narratives through the use of symbolism within found imagery.

Music “Canzoni per sonar a quattro” by Giovanni Gabrieli, performed by Elizabeth Cohen, Max Mathews, and Gerard Schwarz. Images generated by computer.

In a seemingly endless sequence, one impulse triggers the next. The stations in this chain reaction are everyday objects such as a record player, a clock and many more. The scene also splits due to the two energies released when a champagne bottle is uncorked. At the end of this complicated construction, a woman - Sexy Lola - is gradually freed from the dirt covering her body until her heart appears under the black shell.

Egg factory. The eggs are arranged in orderly rows and march in rhythm. One small egg falls out of the circles measuring the size. The other eggs laugh at him. In the paint department, all eggs are painted in bright colors. Only the small egg remains white and sad. Finally, however, it turns out that only it hatches a yellow chicken.

UCLA Student Animation Workshop. A violinist charms a snake and then both are eaten by the monster, which also eats a frog, a bricklayer, a dribbler, and a bird. Super Carrot conquers the monster by flying into his mouth, but then Super Carrot is eaten by the rabbit.

A description of two nude bodies.

Nineteen images in black, sepia, and white light.

Whale Songs, the ambitious final film in the period of Beams’s personal 16mm filmmaking, combines whale watching with depictions of the animation process itself. The film was hand-colored in negative color, then filmed on color-reversal stock and printed as a negative, contributing to the film’s singular look.

Fred Parke's thesis film on facial modeling at the University of Utah is an early landmark in computer animation.

Got your holidays booked yet? Take a look at what Terminal Tours have to offer in this consciously coarse comic cartoon.

One of the First Cindy Sherman's super-8 film,"Doll Clothes" (officially, the film is "Untitled") has not been viewed since 1975, the year it was made. It comically crosses Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase with animated paper dolls in a sly, funny and clever precursor to the concerns that became signature elements in Sherman's remarkable body of photographic work.

This tape combines live-images filmed in the Yucatan with output from the Paik video-synthesizer ribboned with computer-generated images.

Animated film made using the 'pen on paper' technique, with blown-up shapes forming the letters of the alphabet. A drawn man tangles with these letters.

When will it be Saturday? The best recipes for spending your desired free time vary. Some start washing cycles, others leave the city for nature, immerse themselves in their favorite book or relax looking into the bottom of a glass of beer. However, time away from work not only brings a sense of freedom, but also obligations and expectations.

Father's behavior towards his fellow human beings is thoughtless and without consideration. But when he gets into a difficult situation, the neighbors behave completely differently. Father recognizes himself.

A three-minute fantasy of butterflies and dragonflies cavorting amongst the pussywillows, Japanese-inspired animation accompanied by two variations on keyboard works by the Baroque composer.

A powerful nation has experimented with a new gas, which does not kill or injure the asphyxiated subjects, only puts them in a lethargic and mystical state. X-70 gas bombs will be dropped by mistake over Nebelux and provoke an unexpected mutation of the population of this friendly little country. (miff.com.au)

Changing parameters on mathematical equations.

Pilot for a TV series

A black briefcase accompanies a child in his life from the very moment of his birth. He devotes all his attention to the case. Nothing can distract him: not a girl on a swing, not a funny clown. The hero resists various temptations - sports, women, restaurants, fishing, travel. Because of his passion for the briefcase, he remains indifferent to those in need of help. When he gets old, he opens the briefcase and realizes that it is his coffin.

Sug-i, a poor North Korean girl is ordered by the communists to go into the mountains and bring wild ginseng for the Red Chief. She wanders around in Mountain Geumgang, where she slips over a rock. Ttoli lives in the mountains with the wild animals and is also called Jang-gun. He saves Sug-i with his animal friends. Through Sug-i, he comes out into the world and comes to learn of his past. His parents had tried to escape from North Korea but had been arrested, and Ttoli had been abandoned. Meanwhile, with the Red Chief’s birthday approaching, communists force workers to “dig the tunnel faster,” “make a trench,” and “bring wild ginseng.” Ttoli, catches on to the communists’ plans. Together with his friends, he defeats the North Koreans who were digging the third tunnel, saves his father who was among the prisoners, and finally comes face to face with the Red Chief.

Professor Phosphate discovers that he has no sample of an unusual mineral called "Zubbolite". He travels a considerable distance and endures the desert heat in his pursuit of the illusive mineral.

Filling in income tax forms is not as difficult as it may seem.

An animated interpretation of the Indian legend of the singing golden deer.

The metamorphic lifecycle of a cartoon star.

Early computer graphics animation on the Datamax UV-1.

This animated short is the visual enactment of the year-long obstacle course run by a teacher trainee. Rich in humor and anecdote, it is a comedy of educational manners seen through the autobiographical and unflinching eye of the trainee-turned-filmmaker.

A simple home movie of a cat is reprocessed through a 'Zip-a-tone' dot pattern making a complex of layers. In combination with freeze frames, positive and negative, and color motion, this work attempts to visually construct a system of overlays like those in Baroque musical composition.

Short animated film about a girl who takes care of the geese.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

Young Pinio gives his porcelain elephant Dominik vitamins, after which he becomes real, and the two set off on new adventures.

Short experimental animation from a trio of talented knob-twiddlers.

This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.

An early short by Sally Cruikshank. Running through various anthropomorphized creatures, this short lack a real sense of narrative.

Out with the old and in with the new – one of Britain’s leading animation companies pitches its new image with great humour.

An early experimental abstract animation, made by drawing directly on to 16mm film.