Series 4

Fragments of a collective post-human dream construct a world that straddles hyper-technological, ecological, and mythological dimensions.

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many...

Lye completed his last great film a few months before his death at the age of 78. The film returned to the black-and-white techniques of Free...

Lye created a series of scratched images in the 1950s – more regular or geometric than his usual style – to accompany Rock...

A direct animation film featuring black and white full frame motion as opalescent as the dancing night sky. The abstract animation field textures...

Begins as a whimsical piece with 'sheets' of lines running down the screen, progressing into more and more complex geometic patterns but without...

Arturo is almost 90 years old. Widowed for a long time, he is used to being alone and his days pass as a pensioner, without doing anything special:...

The sun’s energy circulates throughout the earth, feeding the cycle of life. Everything is connected in a natural loop, which repeats, like the...

In a lifeless urban landscape where time itself has stopped its crawl, a mad ballet is commencing and a newly hatched butterfly is about to die.

To the sound of a heartbeat and made entirely without the use of a camera, this film projects abstract forms and illuminations on a night-black...

John Henry springs to life as a full-grown man, and in no time at all establishes himself as the mightiest steel-driver around. When a newfangled...