1000 Plateaus
A musical celebration of travel, jazz and road maps, this abstract film was created entirely in the front seat of a car with ink, paint and other simple tools.
Hand-Painted Paradise – Steven Woloshen Shorts
90 minutes
This pioneer of drawn-on-film animation makes scratches and lacerations on actual film to create his work.
This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2019
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A Colour Box
Len Lye’s first direct animation combined popular Cuban dance music with hand-painted abstract designs. Its novelty divided audiences – some viewers loved it, others hated it.
Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
Abstronic
I wanted to manipulate light to produce visual compositions in time continuity much as a musician manipulates sound to produce music. It was particularly while I listened to music that I felt an overwhelming urge to translate my reactions and ideas into visual form that would have the ordered sequence of music. - Mary Ellen Brute
Blinkity Blank
This experimental short film by Norman McLaren is a playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the retina of the eye, McLaren engraves pictures on blank film creating vivid, percussive effects.
Cameras Take Five
The enduring romance of the lines. A visual exploration of Dave Brubeck’s jazz classic “Take Five.”
Casino
A film dedicated to my Father, who gambled with love
Fiesta Brava
The bull fights are over. Now, the bulls invite you to the world’s biggest party.
Firehouse
Metamorphoses of colours and forms created by flashlight exposures of plants and stones directly on film.
Only Lovers Leave to Die
mily begins perceiving the world as it was made from painted film stock shortly after being injured in an accident. On her way to a hospital, a story of love, death, passion and loss unravels through dialogues of characters surrounding her, each represented with a different pattern of film stock.
The film was conceived on principles of random generative filmmaking and made by observing and measur
Snip
Shards of film fly from the screen with the frenetic sounds of Fats Waller on the piano.
The Curse of the Voodoo Child
Sex, birth, fire and fingerprints. A passion play and the events of conception result in mayhem.
Tracheal Shave
“Think of a small dot in space”. Experimental animated film; ink and paint on found 35mm movie trailers.
Uprising
Light - Movement - Time - Memory - Joy
