To the Highest Point Near the Sun

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

December 1996 •English

Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America, during which they manage to accidentally become America's most wanted.

Piccolo

November 1959 •

Two men in adjoining duplexes, good friends, are enchanted by the song of a bird. One buys a small harmonica and learns to play it; he keeps his neighbor awake. The neighbor buys a larger harmonica, and an arms race ensues; the instruments get larger, until it's a piano vs. a pipe organ, and then they start bringing in larger groups of friends until an entire orchestra is playing the 1812 Overture. The houses collapse from all this, atop the dueling orchestras, and on their way up to heaven, the man puts his small harmonica up for sale.

The Cat Returns

July 2002 •Japanese

Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.

The Comic that Frenches your Mind

September 2008 •English

A 5 minute, 2D, straight-ahead animated film by Bruce Bickford.

Infinity Train

November 2016 •English

In this non-canon pilot to the animated series 'Infinity Train', Tulip must learn to set her personal interests aside to make her way through a mysterious train and help the king of all corgis save his people.

Video Weavings

January 1974 •English

Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes, or algorithms, visualized in real time on the warp and weft of video's horizontal and vertical scanning electron beams, color phosphors, plasma cells, and LCD pixels.

Anima

January 1974 •English

Abstract computer animation set to autoharp solo music composed and performed by Jordan Belson

Digit

January 1979 •English

Abstract animation set to music

TRIANGLE

February 2012 •English

What would you do if a stranger disrupted your daily routine? The choice is whether to accept this person as a friend, or reject him as an outsider.

Swap Meet

April 2015 •English

A collaborative experiment between 14 artists around the globe. Each artist creates a background, All backgrounds are traded randomly, and then animated upon freely.

OPIAH

June 2022 •English

Archibald, an astronaut painter is on a mission to paint his magnum opus, the solar system. Driven by obsession, he is faced with his final piece, which will guide him to his doom, The Sun.

Sun Knapping

April 2012 •French

Flying Image

January 1989 •English

We swoop through action-filled rooms. Again and again, we fly past people and events without ever recognizing what is really going on. This film is a three-minute version of an endless-loop video originally designed as a project for exhibitions. It was shown at the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, the Künstlerhaus in Stuttgart and the Goethe Institut in Paris.

Here There

September 2015 •Croatian

Here There gives graphic form to memory’s malleable, straying lines. It begins as a traveler’s sketchbook, drawn in Croatia in the summer of 2014, but details soon fade away into abstract impressions on the edges of memory. This film is a reduction to the essence, a condensed feeling of one place and time.

A Boy on a Dock Blowing his Nose

January 2004 •English

Barry Doupé's lusty A Boy on a Dock Blowing His Nose features vaguely articulated, quasi-human doodles and Spirographs animated within a bizarre netherworld of its own humid imagination.

Life Eternal

May 2021 •English

This experimental animated short shows the life of a forest through storms, seasons, and a variety of art forms.

Remote Life Drawings

June 2019 •English

Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage of abstract images that illustrate the neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan. TAV is located at the centre of four distinct districts that exist in harmony in central Taipei. The film connects the four districts by using morphing animation, presenting the vague and complex atmosphere around the village.

The Stubborn Donkey

November 2008 •Greek

When the old fisherman tries to convince his donkey to climb the steep winding road of their Greek island, he finds Mariza to be one suborn ass. But the old man knows that no one can resist Zorba's dance.

Celestial Transits

June 2022 •English

A young woman named Olive struggles to define her own identity, which manifests into her two inner "celestial beings," Sol and Luna, coming into a conflict.

Life Of A Sun Warrior

July 2023 •English

Ori Peer's Sun character in a 3 minute short employing a unique, cynical take on the cycle of life.