Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film (1913)

Киноэссе популярной в шестидесятые американской рок-группы The Monkees на такие «жизненно важные» темы, как отношения с девушками, коммерциализация музыки, кинопроизводство и Вьетнам.

The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel and Montreal. The second part depicts the return to Earth from being eaten by Max Müller on the day Edward VII dedicated the Great Sewer of London.

Эрика вышла замуж молоденькой девушкой сразу после окончания школы и жила счастливо двадцать лет. По мнению друзей у нее было все, о чем можно только мечтать: любимый муж Мартин, дом в престижном районе Нью-Йорка, чудесная дочка Пэтти, работа в художественной галерее в Сохо. Но внезапно горизонт семейного счастья затянули черные тучи. Мартин бросил ее ради молодой девушки. Что ж, многие проходят через такие повороты судьбы! Но Эрика не предполагала, что будет так больно. Она старается изо всех сил, но никак не может свыкнуться с мыслью, что теперь она. .. незамужняя женщина.

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures bounce around on the now white background.

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone for the film's abstract panoramic survey of an Ozu-esque Japanese landscape of electrical power lines, passing trains, railroad tracks, and the gentle slope of obliquely peaked, uniform rooflines as Breer distills the essential geometry of Mount Fuji into a collage of acute angles and converging (and bifurcating) lines .

Леао, рабочий-гастарбайтер на лиссабонской стройке, падает в обморок, а обморок оборачивается двухмесячной комой. Мариана, молодая медсестра, ухаживает за пациентом и отправляется сопровождать его в возвращении на родину, на Кабо Верде, где нет нужных медикаментов, но наверняка есть родственники Леао. Мариана пытается раскрыть прошлое неподвижного пациента, оно становится ясным, то вновь запутывается, и заставляет ее каждый день смотреть на жизнь под новым углом. Пробуждение главного героя открывает новый виток спирали.

A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into a never ending nightmare filled with horrible monsters.

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to arrow heads. The first version of the film won a major award at the International Experimental Film Festival Held in Brussels in 1958 in association with the World's Fair. Stan Brakhage described the film as "an almost unbelievably immense masterpiece".

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Images of our Earth appear, woods, a part of a body, a nude woman perhaps giving birth. Imagery evokes movement across time. Part of the Dog Star Man series of experimental films.

Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching in middair, an air which is Time—not an actual intersection, but with a consequence as powerful as predestination, a momentary fulfillment, a trail beyond mere pattern, like a streak of truth alive and uncontained, like something that runs through infinity slowing to leave condensation, sonority, a temperature. Lines crossing lines. Not there. There. Invisibilities smudging. Gesture and impression, optic suggestions, agents on and in the mind. Each with vibrations, dollops, whispers, throbs, particles and waves. A finger of pigment brushing a lip of language exchanging carriage supports, liquidities, fire. Moire of meanings. Micro settings in the heart. The time it takes. The very least one can say is to say The Extravagant Shadows is a major work. Humanly essential, adventurous and necessary.

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and six minutes long, and is named according to the chronological order in which it was made. The collection includes Numbers 1–5, 7, and 10, while the missing Numbers 6, 8, and 9 are presumed to have been lost.

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on static backgrounds to suggest travel and discovery.

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials (visual and aural) are subject to any conceivable interrelation and modification.

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

This film, photographed in London, is an exploration into the depths of unconscious reactions.

Десятиминутная история любви с необычными персонажами. Жила-была прямая линия. И однажды случилось так, что она влюбилась в точку. Но точка не отвечала взаимностью воздыхателю. Линия казалась ей слишком простой, и куда приятней точке было общаться с витиеватой загогулиной, более интересной и привлекательной. Но прямая линия не была намерена сдаваться: она попыталась сформировать различные фигуры, начала гнуться в углы. Позже она продемонстрировала свои способности возлюбленной точке, и точка поняла главное — истинная красота происходит из порядка, а загогулина — не ее судьба. Точка и линия гораздо больше подходят друг другу.

Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and 69, Breer delves into the very basis of animation to explore how a variety of easily recognisable objects can be portrayed and manipulated differently using pixillation and classically drawn animation. -Malcolm Turner

Short experimental animation.

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he mixed with artists who later became the Abstract Expressionists, encouraged New York’s emerging filmmakers such as Francis Lee, taught with Hans Richter, and assisted Ian Hugo on Bells of Atlantis. Color Cry was based on a development of the “rayogram” or “shadow cast” process, using fabrics as stencils, with the images synchronized to a haunting blues song by Sonny Terry, which Lye imagined to be the anguished cry of a runaway slave. —Harvard Film Archive