No. 11: Mirror Animations
1956
5
A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.
Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.
No. 11: Mirror Animations
1956
5
A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes. An abstract film drawn directly on the computer.
Jazzimation
1999
0
A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital.
Trans/Figure/Ground
2016
0
Lulu the dog gets a job at the local convenience store and stays up all night cleaning the back room. Short created for Adult Swim Smalls.
Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff
2023
10
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.
Fehérlófia
1981
7
The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The main circle (character) is slightly pinker than the other grey circles (people) and she thought she was very special. But she is very grey in a colourful world. She will find out that grey is not just a boring colour.
Don't You Wish You Were Here?
1997
0
Rubin's Incorporia
2021
0
A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns. As with an atom, the variety of possibilities from a base movement is potentially infinite.
Dimensions
2016
0
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.
Drums West
1961
7
Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.
Thine Own Self
2021
10
A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in every direction. This film is the remake of Barcode, an abstract road-movie about light and shadows.
Barcode III.0
2013
6
An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.
Shearing Animation
1961
7
A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
Things to Come
1953
0
Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.
Calypso
1955
5
Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the tile patterns of Islamic temples, are generated by performing a set of symmetry operations (translations, rotations, and reflections) upon a basic figure or tile. Two Space consists of twelve such patterns produced using each of nine different animating figures (12 x 9 = 108 total). Rendered in stark black and white, the patterns produce optical illusions of figure-ground reversal and afterimages of color. Gamelan music from the classical tradition of Java adds to the mesmerizing effect.
Two Space
1979
0
This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.
Woman Is My Last Name
2022
0
Kaparamip
2018
0
A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into a never ending nightmare filled with horrible monsters.
Heart String Marionette
2012
5
A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.
A Fugue
2019
0
Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and six minutes long, and is named according to the chronological order in which it was made. The collection includes Numbers 1–5, 7, and 10.
Early Abstractions
1965
6