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A man moves against a strong wind. It turns out that he is walking on a tight rope.With a great effort, he finally hits a high platform. There are a lot of people on it. The wind comes from their mouths. He joins the crowd to make a wind against the next one who goes on the rope.
A fantastical jungle environment of clay creatures is invaded by a raucous visitor.
British Public Information Film about the importance of removing the door when throwing a refrigerator away.
Animation short based on orthodox themes.
An animated sex-comedy romp done with an entire Barbie doll cast.
UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Experimental animation with an array of hand-drawn patterns intersecting in a cross of four squares.
Animation short.
Produced for the "Favolistica Europeia" series, the film evokes sea voyages of Portuguese navigators at the beginning of the 16th century. It is one of the most ambitious works of this period of Portuguese animation and describes an Atlantic Ocean plunged into constant darkness and inhabited by terrible monsters that could sink any ship in its fearsome waves and bubbling waters.
Compared the language of love to pieces of hardware.
How far can the smile of a dream creature glimpsed through the window of a crowded compartment lead...
Hand-drawn cartoon in which two characters constantly break out of one another and kill one another. “Freedom is a constant struggle.
A man peels a banana in stop-motion by putting it through his head.
Abstract animation. The sound is recorded during a show at Gröna Lund in Stockholm, where Edmundo Zanolini and Michel Laub performs. (Filmform)
Dialogue is based on a poem, which is absurd, erotic and poetic. (Filmform)
Hedman’s first films that are preserved (the early production on Super-8 is lost) are graphic-rich audio-visual studies, eg. 'A Semiotic Study of Unlogic Figure Codification (1973, together with H.P. Andersson) and Aforism (1974). These two, as well as most of Hedman’s films, were made with the support of Filmverkstan. Hedman also came to assist several animators at Filmverkstan, among others. Lilian Domec in her early animation Höghuset. (Filmform)
An attempt to show how illogical movement patterns are possible in a two-dimensional space. (Filmform)
Performance by Claudio Cintoli.
The 1977 animation Legokaupunki is the earliest known brickfilm filmed in Finland and one of the earliest known brickfilms in general. The brickfilm was shot on 8mm film using a French camera called a CAMEX 8 Cellule Reflex.
Annie Mae starts her day with fanciful looks out her window, and then reality sets in.
Maxi Cat's strange spaghetti.
A test for motion by painting on film.
Are you a dog or a cat person? If you favour the felines then this animated meditation on cats of all shapes and sizes is for you. The film grew out of industry veteran Vera Linnecar's play with applying mottled coloured paints directly onto animation cels. Paired with the piano music these scenes are a playful experiment, mixing abstraction with careful observation of cat behaviour. Vera started her animation career at the Halas & Batchelor studio in 1940, as did Elizabeth Horn, who also worked on this film. Moving from tracing, to inbetweening, to animating, Vera became one the company's principle artists. In the late 1940s she moved to the Larkins studio which better suited her experimental spirit. In 1957, along with Nancy Hanna, she joined Bob Godfrey and Keith Learner at Biographic, and continued innovating there until she retired in 1983, after four decades in the business.
A comic cartoon, without commentary, showing that not everyone who rises to the challenge of sport can be sure of success. Pictured is a man with middle-aged flab who tackles the whole range of contemporary sports--swimming, bicycling, golfing, gymnastics, jogging--with great eagerness but equal ineptitude. At a time when physical fitness is much on the public mind, Sports Challenge is a friendly warning that fitness is not necessarily an inborn trait.
A play on the colour, form and movement of two simple figures: a flower and a star. The effect is gay and lively, a constant surprise, but the movement has a mathematical precision as multiples of the figures form sets or ensembles, forming and reforming on the screen in absorbing, piquant harmony.
Stop motion animation short film made with hundreds of styrofoam cubes lined with coloured cardboard.
A person’s internal journey to the penetralia, the innermost place.
An adventure story which introduces rational numbers. Tells about the visit of the first rational number to a community of natural numbers.
Uses animation without narration to show six methods of birth control. Presents the use, advantages, disadvantages, costs, and effectiveness of the condom, the diaphragm, vasectomy, the intrauterine device, tubal ligation and the pill.
A short film made in 1976 directed by José Emmanuel Xavier.
Paleolithic Pornograffiti is about a prehistoric man who learns how to whack, is shown how to fuck, and sets out to try
Phosphene features colorful negatives of erotic imagery. Scenes in the film display flashes of sexual intercourse and vibrant inkblots (similar to those seen in Inkaboos). During the creation of this film, Byron was fascinated with the degenerated images in old film footage. He went on to obtain pornographic films shot in 8mm. He photographed individual frames using a still camera with high magnification and further exaggerated the grain and the contrast. Prints of these frames were re-photographed on kodalith negatives and then fastened like animation cels. Colored gels were placed beneath the kodaliths on a light box and the sequences re-animated. The film was screened at the 9th Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1971; however, it was nearly rejected due to its erotic imagery. The music in this film is from the Grateful Dead song, “Viola Lee Blues”, and can also be heard in Fotogrammar. -Chicago Film Archives
Animated study of eggs.
Conceived in 1930/31, but not realised until 1972 with the support of Robert Darroll.
Abstract images of frame-by-frame animation with subtle growing effects of crystals are enhanced by polarized colors.
Two timeless tales of adventure come vividly to life in these enchanting animated films. In Arabian Nights, Pindar takes a wild magic-carpet ride and gets three wishes from a genie while searching for a pair of missing magical slippers. Then, in Robin Hood, the legendary archer and his band of Merry Men take on the vile Sheriff of Nottingham and his minions to save a father and son, who join the outlaw hero on his valiant crusades.
Colored pixels slowly build up into abstract patterns. Scored by Steve Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians.” As described by the Los Angeles Times: “the artist pains kinetic abstractions with electrons. The piece begins with a few colored squares, scattered about a plain field, and grows to larger scale arrangements of overlapping rectangles. Sequences of flickering movement and changing color are impeccably orchestrated as squares become building blocks in handsome compositions.”
Colored rectangles forming on top of each other, creating constantly-shifting abstract compositions. Scored by “A Rainbow in Curved Air.”
Abstract compositions of pulsating and shifting frames within frames, scored by “A Rainbow in Curved Air.”
Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Émile Cohl, the brilliant inventor and self-taught artist Louis Van Maelder created a body of work of unparalleled richness and inventiveness by drawing directly onto the film strip.