Thanatopsis

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...

A subversive and experimental film by Otto Muehl.

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...

Avant-garde short focused on the pure elements of film like form, visual composition, and rhythm.

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

An experimental short in which the degradation of film is shown over time.

A Berlin street scene.

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

A short experimental film from James Broughton.

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

Recreation's rapid-fire slideshow of single-frame images of incredible density and intensity has been compared to contemporary Beat poetry.

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...

Intended as a publicity film for Chrysler, Rhythm uses rapid editing to speed up the assembly of a car, synchronizing it to African drum music. The sponsor was horrified by the music and suspicious of...

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

Shot over a period of three years. Marie Menken photographed New York window displays during the Christmas holiday. In order to avoid foot and street traffic interrupting the shots, Menken filmed from...

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

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

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...