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7.9

Akira

June 1988 •Japanese

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

6.0

Bee Movie

October 2007 •English

Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.

0.0

A Fugue

July 2019 •English

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

5.0

Sketch Film #3

January 2006 •English

Sketch Film #3 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2006, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA/Japan) The third film in the series, which starts with a sequence of paired images: a focused image and a blurred image of the same subject, which was caused by a diagonal camera movement. Later, it shows an experiment to produce an apparent depth by rotating an apparent shape. It was edited in camera and hand-processed afterwards.

0.0

Newspaper

January 2013 •Japanese

Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao

6.6

The Flight of Dragons

August 1982 •English

The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so Carolinus, the green wizard decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red wizard, stands in his way. Carolinus then calls for a quest that is to be led by a man named Peter Dickinson, who is the first man of both the realms of science and magic. It is Peter's job to defeat Ommadon.

7.0

Mandala

January 1953 •English

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

0.0

The Last Zero

January 1965 •Polish

Animation short by Alina Maliszewska.

6.9

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic

February 2010 •English

Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice. An animated version of the video game of the same name.

0.0

Woman Is My Last Name

May 2022 •English

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

6.0

On Generation and Corruption

January 2017 •Japanese

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between light and darkness. Entirely composed of superimposed images of Tokyo’s landscape and water sites, the film takes its rhythm from the cycles of repetition that are the pillars of life and civilisation. As light emerges from the chaos, Jim O’Rourke’s ambient drone sets the tone for what is to come.

0.0

Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

September 2021 •German

Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light and shadow that pulsates off the screen into our physical space with blinding intensity. The presence of light is almost felt as we are sucked into the image to become its ghostly accomplice. As we leave the theatre, the optical vibrations continue to haunt us.

7.0

Enigma: Nazo

July 1978 •Japanese

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious symbols) converging towards the centre of the screen.

0.0

Precious Metal

January 1980 •English

A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.

8.0

Wet Paint

January 1977 •English

[The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity of the careful animated choreography. - William Moritz

6.0

Dragonfly

January 1988 •Japanese

An abstract animation with a motif of a dragonfly, and a complex multi-exposure landscape of a field and a woman's naked body overlap.

0.0

Before Before

October 2012 •English

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

7.3

Bloodlust

November 1999 •German

An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which is a film projector with optical sound. He affixed his blood onto clear film leader by cutting into the flesh and then pressing the film leader onto the wound. Additionally he had blood taken with a syringe and afterwards dripped it on the film leader. fresh and clotted blood was used.

0.0

Spin

January 2002 •English

An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

8.0

Ideas in Search of Light

August 1938 •English

Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife, Irena Dodalová).