Rectangle & Rectangles

"The strangeness of this film is laced with carefully moulded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death – the Elysian...

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

Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...

This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many...

Lye completed his last great film a few months before his death at the age of 78. The film returned to the black-and-white techniques of Free...

Lye created a series of scratched images in the 1950s – more regular or geometric than his usual style – to accompany Rock...

Soviet animation from Vladimir Tarasov.

A jazz cartoon involving a "Fats Waller"-like cat who leaves the "Uncle Tomcat Mission" for the local jazz club. One of the “Censored...

Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master...

A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things.

A fiddler's hand creates its own choreography is music is performed. This film is an attempt to share the dance. In the tradition and spirit of a...

Part one of the two part abstract video art-piece, with music composed by Philip Glass and performed by the Kronos String Quartet.