Dragonfly
Genres
Overview
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
7 min
Release Date
1988-01-01
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Vote Count
1
Vote Average
6
0.0
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6.0
On Generation and Corruption
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2017-01-26 | ja
0.0
A Day In LC
A person living in Liberty City goes to work, have some food & gets back home.
2024-10-26 | en
7.6
Son of the White Mare
A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.
1981-10-22 | hu
0.0
You're Not Real Pretty but You're Mine...
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1968-01-01 | en
7.3
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
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1965-12-15 | en
7.3
Drums West
This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstrates his working method.
1961-12-31 | en
6.8
Shearing Animation
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1961-01-01 | xx
5.7
Fuji
A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone for the film's abstract panoramic survey of an Ozu-esque Japanese landscape of electrical power lines, passing trains, railroad tracks, and the gentle slope of obliquely peaked, uniform rooflines as Breer distills the essential geometry of Mount Fuji into a collage of acute angles and converging (and bifurcating) lines .
1974-12-31 | xx
0.0
Catgot
A colourful "fountain performance".
2019-05-28 | xx
3.0
Allahu Akbar
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2003-01-01 | ar
10.0
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Citronella, a mosquito who faints at the sight of blood, nervously waits outside her first group therapy session, while the Pill Bug therapist, Dr. Pill tries to calm a neurotic group of bugs, each suffering from a mental-health issue: An OCD germaphobic Fly freaks when he runs out of hand sanitizer. A Dragonfly couple struggle with co-dependency; she's literally on top of him. A Grasshopper, addicted to coffee, is so jumpy, he launches himself in mid-sentence. A Praying Mantis who doesn't pray because she thinks she is God. A terrified Spider is deathly afraid of -- spiders. And, a perfectly-camouflaged Stick Bug complains that no one ever "sees" him. Throughout all this, Citronella battles her urge to flee - while Dr. Pill implores her to share her "embarrassing" problem.
2021-10-24 | en
0.0
The Dowager's Idyll
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6.8
M・Y・F・A・C・E
Abstract horror short about a girl's face.
2005-12-07 | ja
5.9
Free Radicals
In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to arrow heads. The first version of the film won a major award at the International Experimental Film Festival Held in Brussels in 1958 in association with the World's Fair. Stan Brakhage described the film as "an almost unbelievably immense masterpiece".
1958-04-23 | en
0.0
Precious Metal
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10.0
Metamorphic
She's here. She comes closer. Is she in front of me? Now she, by herself, becomes her.
2024-06-11 | ko
0.0
Shift
An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or predict the end of the world.
2012-01-01 | en
0.0
140 Characters
"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
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0.0
Chase
An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath.
2012-02-03 | xx