Five Minutes of Pure Cinema

An experimental short film from Stan Brakhage.

A parade of popular consumer items cut to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". A great example of Pop Art in film.

With a similar dreamy mood like its predecessor "Take the 5:10 to Dreamland" (1976) this clip starts with a boy getting into his bed. The camera zooms in into the boy's mind and a slow, sad waltz (i.e...

Robert Breer animation from 1969. 16mm, color, silent, using spray paint & stencils.

A short experimental film from James Broughton.

Film about politically motivated violence in the Kingdom of Prussia.

Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger concentrates on visual details found in Moorish architecture and in ancient Spanish tile. The da...

A high-speed travel through Paris on trains and on the Seine.

Con un comentario de Noël Burch (en francés sin sentido), el montaje de fuego rápido de Recreation de imágenes de un solo marco de increíble densidad e intensidad se ha comparado con la poesía contemp...

Un motor se mueve de la casa de máquinas a una pista donde se acopla con varios automóviles de pasajeros.. A las 2:10 de la tarde, comienza un viaje fuera de la estación a través del campo hacia su de...

"Studie II (Hallucinationer)" (Study II (Hallucinations)) (1952), comprises twelve staged scenes that were modelled after a set of drawings. Accompanied by metallic sounds, various body parts, limbs a...

Una breve animación surrealista de Dinamarca que comienza con un zoom en una pintura de Paul Delvaux, luego invierte el proceso al retroceder desde una imagen que cambia continuamente.

Part of The Children's Trilogy. Filmed in 1938, effects added by Larry Jordan ca. 1965-68.

Director Joseph Cornell evokes the nostalgia of childhood by filming a children's party.

"Made with spray paint and hand-cut stencils, this film was an attempt at maximum plastic intensity… Places Breer for the first time among the major colorists of the avant-garde." – P. Adams Sitney

A wall blocks the path of two people. One man submits, while the other refuses to admit defeat.

London to Brighton in 4 minutes BBC interlude. From the days when TV was all live and programming was hectic. Often when one program finished, the next one was not ready yet, and the gap had to be fil...

A man and a woman converse at a cafe's bar in this animated short.

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its soundtrack. Three young men merrily bop through the wreck...