Persian Series #3

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

Stan Brakhage's final film, made shortly before his death by wetting a filmstrip with saliva and using his fingernail to scratch marks into the emulsion.

A meadow, a lake, the silhouette of a hill, trees. 21 days of the same view in Saarland. 21 days with five different cut-outs in a mask before the camera, which finally reveals a complete panorama. Th...

“This is a hand-painted film whose emotionally referential shapes and colors are interwoven with words (in English) from the first Hymn to the Night by the late 18th century mystic poet Friedrich Phil...

During breaktime, Dara and Nader have a fierce argument about a torn exercise book that the former has given back to the latter. There are two possible outcomes, which the film shows one after the oth...

A short experimental film from James Broughton.

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

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

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

A political satire in which an animated man with a drum is waiting for his cue.

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...

Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approaching script.

A collage of two-dimensional images of vegetation, each appearing only for a moment, sometimes as a single image, more often with other bits of stem, leaf, bud, or petal. Often we see only the outline...

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

UFOs involved developing special color filters used on an-optical bench in reshooting original rolls, but to heighten the color saturation exponentially, black frames were inter-edited so that the eye...

Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion.

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed by darkness, then becomes lit lightning-like by sh...

A fast-paced rhythmic impression of dancers, musicians and sportsmen at a highlands event.