Ultima Thule

In her recent films, Geiser has been exploring the possibilities found in merging video texture with film, creating a kind of deep, ambiguous space, a suggestion of “the floating world”. In ULTIMA THULE, gravity fails, land and sky lose their historical meaning. A small silver plane navigates an ultramarine storm, flying over barely-glimpsed hills, an unlikely ferry to ”Ultima Thule”: the farthest point north, the limit of any journey. The seduction of immersion in blue is too strong to avoid, the land fills with water, and time loses its line.

Happy

An animated poem about the fleeting nature of happiness.

SeeingSeeing

Through meticulous cut-up, collaging and stop motion, Nico Vassilakis makes words dance across the screen, moving our eyes in all different directions. This video poem is dynamic and colourful, and brings into question what happens when we 'see' a word - where do we distinguish between the image a word forms in our minds, and the image it forms on a page or screen?

A Child's Garden of Poetry

Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected performers.

Made in Japan

Short animation by Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita satirizes in a non narrative way the 'economic animal' Japan and predicted the economic recession in the 70s

The King Dreams the King

An ancient king takes so long to build his palace it becomes his mausoleum. He recalls days of his life both cold and hot – unquenchable longing for power, insatiable desire tout court.

See Saw Seams

An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

What Is Sex?

A multimedia sex-ed video about life and love in a world where humans have corkscrew penises and corkscrew vaginas.

Keny-atta

Chicago Footwarmers

The movement of colourful dots, streaks and scratches embellished directly on a film roll synchronise with the cheerful jazz music by Johnny Dodds and the Chicago Footwarmers.

Voir le soleil se lever dans la lune

SCAR

IT'S RAINING...

Fast Film

Bits of found film and different types of animation illustrate a classic chase scene scenario: A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters.

La vita nuova

Un spectacle interrompu

Groter dan je bent

Poezie is Kinderspel

A whole new universe can hide in the smallest speck of ink.

Metamorphosen I

For the multimedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on a film that would combine non-camera animation with 35mm footage of a train ride between the two Dresden districts of Radebeul and Pieschen. When the exhibition was banned in 1978, Heinze turned to other projects, but Dammbeck continued working on the film by himself. Metamorphoses I—the first experimental film ever to be shown publicly in East Germany—marks the filmic beginning of Dammbeck’s long-term art project the Herakles-Konzept (Hercules Concept).

Marcel, ta mère t'appelle

Afterimages

A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation by Evan Bode.