Animation is booming and cross-over products are everywhere. New digital animation technologies are becoming increasingly accessible and are used by countless visual artists. Since the first animation experiments in the early twentieth century, animation and the visual arts have engaged in an intensive exchange. This programme consists of films by Dutch artists and filmmakers active in the border region between visual art and animation from the 1950s to the early 1990s, when the technology was almost exclusively analogue. The programme emerged from the Filmmuseum’s recent comprehensive restoration of experimental films.

The programme includes lesser- and better-known films from this border region between film and visual art. It is not narrative, but rather material and technique that forms the basis of these films.

Curated by Simona Monizza & Mette Peters.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2008

Showing in this program

Acientry

• Paul de Mol
• The Netherlands, 1969
• 2 min.

Mad Nest

• Shinkichi Tajiri
• The Netherlands, 1955
• 4 min.

Nacht-Licht

• Bart Vegter
• The Netherlands, 1993
• 13 min.

Ponskaart Polonaise

• Matthijs Blonk
• The Netherlands, 1976
• 2 min.

Slippery Slope

• Karin Wiertz / Jacques Verbeek
• The Netherlands, 1972
• 4 min.

A house with ever-changing interiors, surrounded by different types of landscapes, is shown from all kinds of points of view in response to music.

Ten Past Six

• Edward Luyken
• The Netherlands, 1979
• 11 min.

Transformation by Holding Time (Muse)

• Paul de Nooijer
• The Netherlands, 1976
• 3 min.

Polaroid photos of naked woman are fixed in front of the camera, making the woman disappear gradually from sight.

Wende

• Claudia Kölgen
• The Netherlands, 1985
• 8 min.