Little Stabs at Happiness

Samadhi is both mystical and mysterious, an incredible fusion of movement, sound and colour. Belson notes the influence of his study and practice of Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism on the creation of Samadh...

A soundless mix of story fragments and images. Initially, images of death, a man with a guitar, a soirée. Some images are surreal: an older woman eats a leaf; a headless man pours a cocktail into his ...

Billy Bitzer filmou 21 curtas realidades dentro da Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works em abril e maio de 1904. O público do dia teria assistido a imagens de panoramas de fábricas, mulheres enrolando armadu...

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...

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

One of the earliest music videos, the film shows various pictures of San Francisco in the psychedelic era, with rapid cuts and freeze-frames, and Pink Floyd's music.

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

La marche des machines (Deslaw,1927) is a sort of symphony of machines.

A short surreal animation created with fashion magazine clippings and sound collages.

Two portraits in relation to each other, the first of Robert Creeley, the second of Michael McClure.

An experimental film in which a photograph of an airplane turns into a wire diagram, then into an animated plane in flight, and then it explodes into words.

"This beautiful example of far-fetched blasphemy accompanies a happy, ugly nun into the woods for her constitutional, replete with charming bird noises. Praying to and fondling a priapic mushroom, she...

A 1941 film encouraging people to seek treatment if they had, or might have had, syphilis.

An experimental film of the group Throbbing Gristle in concert.

The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.

Short film that emphasizes the importance of keeping a tidy home when facing an atomic bomb.

Has to do with a consideration of one possible conceptual model for human existence: that of a primitive form of yardchair, upon which sits The Creator, impassively observing the inexorable flow of Hi...

[A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. - Anthology Film Archives