Movies and TvShows featuring "painted-light" theme.

Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both rounded and soft-edged shapes shot with black. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

In the animated short film 'Rage Net,' a furious net creature breaks free from its digital confines and embarks on a destructive rampage throughout the virtual world. As chaos ensues, the net creature's anger grows stronger, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. With stunning hand-painted visuals, this independent short showcases the power and intensity of unleashed rage.

Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approaching script. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed by darkness, then becomes lit lightning-like by sharp multiply-colored twigs-of shape, all resolving into shapes of decay. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Glaze of Cathexis is an abstract and independent short film that explores the use of painted light in an avant-garde style.

Black Ice is a mesmerizing animated short film that explores the world of painted light and abstract imagery. With breathtaking visuals and a captivating narrative, it takes viewers on a journey through the depths of imagination.

The Wold Shadow is a 1977 short film that takes place in a forest. It is an independent silent film that focuses on the beauty of nature, specifically the shadow of a tree. The film explores the close-up shots of a birch tree and creates a unique atmosphere with painted light and exposure techniques.

Night Music is an abstract film that explores the concept of moving visual thinking through the use of painted light. The film takes viewers on a visual journey, creating a mesmerizing and unique experience.

The Dante Quartet is a mesmerizing exploration of the afterlife, portrayed through surreal hand-painted animation. The film delves into the realms of heaven, hell, and purgatory, taking viewers on a journey through abstract landscapes and captivating imagery. It is a unique and avant-garde piece that unfolds without dialogue, relying solely on visuals and a haunting musical score. The Dante Quartet invites audiences to contemplate the mysteries of existence and the cyclical nature of life and death.

Turquoise and maroon-toned thin lines of paint are interspersed with variously toned circular "watermarks" of blotched paint giving-way to multi-colored brush strokes and finally fulsomely darkened and thickened brush-strokes which then thin to something akin to the beginning.

Stellar is a visually stunning animated short film that takes viewers on a mesmerizing journey through the galaxy. Using a unique technique of painted light, the film explores the wonders of outer space and the infinite beauty it holds. With breathtaking visuals and an ethereal soundtrack, Stellar is a must-watch for animation enthusiasts and those in awe of the universe.

Prelude 24 returns to the tempo of single-frame printing. Its shapes and forms are composed of nearly black torques of ink, flickering with white and only faintly, now and again, tinged with color.

This, painted in the hospital while recovering from cancer surgery in 1996, is - it seems to me - very related to De Kooning's Alzheimer's paintings. The mind, here, is seeking a "blank" and/or holding fast to tendrils of meaning which are stripped so bare as to be purely reflective of flesh tissue and irregular strands of cells. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Prelude 10 is a double-printed film with an extreme mixture of darks shot thru with jewel-like bursts of color, and very white bursts of light and fleeting colored forms.

This hand-painted step-printed film begins with "explosions" of white, yellow, orange (deepening into reds), vermillion, and darker red flame shapes. Then there are anatomical beseeming solid yellows against flickering reds. Multiple dissolves of all previous forms and flickering shapes interspersed with blacks and replaced by "dolly in" movements (of the same) interspersed with white, then increasingly with lengthening blacks which finally gives way to a single vermillion/purple burst of flowery form.

A multiple-superimposition hand-painted visual symphony of animal life of earth. THE LOOM might be compared to musical quartet-form (as there are almost always four superimposed pictures); but the complexity of texture, multiplicity of tone, and the variety of interrelated rhythm, suggest symphonic dimensions. The film is very inspired by George Melies: the animals exist (in Jane's enclosure) as on a stage, their interrelationships edited to the disciplines of dance, so therefore one might say this hardly represents "animal life on earth"; but I would argue that this work at least epitomizes theatrical Nature, magical Creature, and is the outside limit, to date, of my art in that respect. (The balance-of-light was so perfectly realized in making the neg. of this print that I wish to credit Western Cine Lab's "timer" Louise Fujiki as creative collaborator in the accomplishment of this work.)

Hand painted short with snippets of found footage interspersed.

This is one of the most elaborately edited of all the hand-painted films of late - a Haydenesque complexity of thematic variations on a totally visual (i.e., un-musical) theme. This film is composed of 35mm hand-painted images reduced to 16mm film, single-frames, shots of two, three, four frames and, occasionally, slightly longer shots, all interspersed with a variety of calculated lengths of black leader which cause a flickering of abstract patterns in rhythmed darkness.

Prelude 19 begins with hand-painted swatches of variable colors encompassed eventually by vertical strokes of reds and blues, followed by sudden clearings which are counterpointed by sections of multiple blobs of color, these effects alternating again and again to then become contrasted with pale washes of color deepening to end on blacks.

Lovesong is a movie that delves into the complexities of human relationships, exploring themes of love, desire, and the challenges that come with them. The story follows the journey of two individuals as they navigate their feelings for each other, highlighting the transformative power of connection.