Fraktura

The Comic that Frenches your Mind

September 2008 •English

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

sfumato

June 2021 •English

Derived from an installation, an asymmetrical orchestration of "motion paintings" pushing the limits of abstraction in the digital age.

Entr'Acte

January 2014 •

A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things.

Street Musique

November 1972 •English

Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than that of the musicians. The illustrations range from convoluted abstractions to caricatures of familiar rituals. Without words.

Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic

August 2020 •English

An elegy to a love affair that has gone sour, a fond farewell to that most beautiful material that has subjugated our planet – plastic.

Ab ovo - Traces of Sand

January 1987 •

A non-narrative film thematising the eternal struggle of human life in a series of scenes connected by associations and accompanied by a strong music motif.

Fantaisie érotique

January 1936 •Czech

Abandoned Village

June 2021 •Georgian

Village, like a human being, is born out of love. Village, like a human being, is ruined, if left without love.

Poum Poum !

June 2021 •French

A musical animated film which celebrates the simple and childish joy of hitting drums, scribbling on paper using marker pens, splashing paint or making cracked cymbals screech.

Leaders

June 2021 •English

Flow

June 2021 •English

Film poem created with the wild flowers that grow along the shore of the Laira estuary, the tidal mouth of the River Plym, on the southwest coast of Britain. The petals and leaves stream past as the haunting soundscape ebbs and flows.

Threnody

June 2020 •English

Threnody emphasises some of the madness and instability of a year filled with fires, infections and general disarray.

Beyond Noh

June 2021 •English

"Beyond Noh" rhythmically animates 3,475 individual masks from all over the world, beginning with the distinctive masks of the Japanese Noh theater and continuing on a cultural journey through ritual, utility, deviance, and politics.

Dark Mixer

January 2014 •Japanese

Iwasaki’s ink oscillates like an evil lava lamp that might actually be alive and its progression into more and more disturbing images create an impressive sense of dread in a film that is basically just some pencil drawings on a blank background. (Film School Rejects)

Square

October 2020 •Czech

Liza

June 2021 •English

Liza is an abstract film that takes its name from a composition by George Gershwin.

Strange Fish

March 2017 •English

Blind evolution. Seemingly arbitrary stages of the evolution in black-and-white drawings on rough paper.

Boy Oh Boy

June 2021 •English

A boy conjures the stars out of yogurt.

Senescence

June 2021 •English

Anemone Temple

June 2021 •Polish

Deep-sea organisms living in such a specific environment have developed unusual forms and properties. This is an interpretation of the underwater world and an invitation to relax.