We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together,…
Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
An experimental short film from the Cremaster series which alludes to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic development process.
The current day-to-day life is much different than what it was thirty or forty years ago, but it is the life to which we as people…
A young Oriental man with a headscarf and bare torso shadowboxes indoors in front of a series of unadorned walls, light, dark, both shades. He is…
Kubelka was asked to do a documentation group of Europe's hunters in Africa, working on it for hours and do the editing very extreme so film…
A young wife and her musician husband live in poverty in a New York City tenement. The husband's job requires him to go away for for…
A greedy tycoon decides, on a whim, to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing the grain's producers into charity…
An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
A nameless woman (Marion Cotillard) enters her Shanghai hotel room to find a vintage record playing and a blue Dior purse that seems to come from…
Before our very eyes, the vibrant and colourful juxtaposition of composer Maurice Blackburn's experimental jazz with animator Norman McLaren's whimsical and erratic animation of abstract forms…
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage focusing on flashing light and photographic images.
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from…
After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid…
Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against…
A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a white background;…
The last moments of a creature made out of fruits and vegetables.
A woman goes to bed, falls asleep, and begins to dream. This dream takes her to a landscape of light and shadow, evoked in a form…
A soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses, all 1920s style…
A lateral descent through the midnight blues and blacks of ice and the refracted colors from absorbed oils.
A man dances in several locations, edited to have a fluent effect.
A man is supine on a mountain side. Images rush past of nature and a stained glass saint. An infant is born. We see a lactating…
Against a backdrop of bizarre shapes and textures, a small organic figure gives birth to the letters of the alphabet while a mixture of children's voices…