Contrathemis

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...

"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

Story about a man whose environment doesn't let him live his simple life.

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

A butchered cow is beheaded in a short film.

Starting in the late 1930s, illustrator and experimental animator Douglass Crockwell created a series of short abstract animated films at his home in Glen Falls, New York. The films offered Crockwell ...

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

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.

A meat enigma spoken in eternal language of director, con man, and magician. It’s about the sham flesh that men create to dam the streaming of truth from their muscles and senses… a molecule of revela...

In this short film, a group of ghost-like vehicles drive by.

A little boy celebrates his catch in a short film.

A short film by Hollis Frampton.

Arrival in the Bronx is shown with a view from an elevated train as it enters the city. Then follows a montage of sights from the Bronx. Many typical neighborhood activities are shown, along with scen...