Movies and TvShows featuring "painted-light" theme.
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.
Glaze of Cathexis is an abstract and independent short film that explores the use of painted light in an avant-garde style.
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.
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.
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse delves into the mesmerizing art of painted-light superimposition on television, showcasing the extraordinary techniques used in creating visual effects and illusions.
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.
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.
A short film that showcases the beauty of color and black and white imagery through a series of stunning visuals.
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.
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.
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.
"Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and conglomerate forms. The resolve of these themes is a combination of "amalgams" and "ghosts" at one in interplay, and then dark slashed spaces with "webs" of white, webbed spaces on white and, finally, solarization of colored forms - midst which the frame-line rises from bottom and drifts a few seconds visible, creating an insubstantiality of the frame of these images.
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.
Untitled (For Marilyn) is a hypnotic short film released in 1992. It explores the theme of hypnagogic experiences through the use of painted light.
“This is a hand-painted film whose emotionally referential shapes and colors are interwoven with words (in English) from the first Hymn to the Night by the late 18th century mystic poet Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg, whose pen name was Novalis. The pieces of text which I've used are as follows: ‘the universally gladdening light … As inmost soul … it is breathed by stars … by stone … by suckling plant … multiform beast … and by (you). I turn aside to Holy Night … I seek to blend with ashes. Night opens in us … infinite eyes … blessed love.’” -SB
Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren. There was a sudden recognition of Maya’s intrinsic love of water and thus of all Mayan liquidity in magic conjunction, reflection, etc. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in Colorado. He sets up a comparison between “Kubelka’s Vienna” and his own.
Persian Series #18 is almost calligraphic in its overlays of dark (occasionally colored) glyphs backed by brilliant color motifs.
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.
...again, is "plein-aire abstraction" as defined above (painted in New York City) – with, for example, even a correctly toned green impression of The Statue of Liberty – and, then, impressions of Toronto with its architectural particularities appearing, midst hurrying people – shapes (almost as if photographed at times). This segment is Double-Printed (i. e., two frames for every painted one).