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Begone Dull Care
Movie

Begone Dull Care(1950)

7.3
NR
8Minutes

Begone Dull Care is an experimental animated short film from 1950 that combines abstract imagery with jazz music. The film features a unique animation technique called drawn-on-film, in which the images are directly drawn and painted onto the film stock. Through its dynamic visuals and rhythmic soundtrack, Begone Dull Care explores the expressive and improvisational nature of both animation and jazz.

Blinkity Blank
Movie

Blinkity Blank(1955)

6.7
5Minutes

Blinkity Blank is a 1955 animated short film that combines abstract imagery with jazz music. The film explores the concept of form and improvisation, showcasing the creativity of the composer. It incorporates various animation techniques, including drawn-on-film and stop-motion animation. The film's unique style and innovative approach make it a must-watch for animation enthusiasts.

The Albatross
Movie

The Albatross(1998)

7.5
14Minutes

A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by19th Century wood engravings which are animated by scratching directly into the surface of color filmstock. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with its message of ecological redemption has a curiously contemporary resonance, but it is at the level of the mythic that the poem has lasting relevance; for this epic tale of extraordinary events simply mirrors the struggle that each human being faces on their own in his or her life. -VDB

Hummingbird
Movie

Hummingbird(2024)

4Minutes

Could film gelatin, a 16mm film camera, 3 lenses and film developing chemistry experimentation act as messengers between the spirit and the physical world? a one day trip to the remote town of Panguipulli (Chile) seeks to explore possibilities and to also expand on the power of audio frequencies as a healing instrument. A manifestation of the hummingbird movement? A connection between mind, landscape, sound, latent image? A replication of Rukapillan volcano’s intermittent flows of magma through fissures on the earth’s surface? -Colibri- erupts 16mm single frame experiments & bursts smoke and sonic healing vibrations

Tal Farlow
Movie

Tal Farlow(1958)

6.4
2Minutes

Lye created a series of scratched images in the 1950s – more regular or geometric than his usual style – to accompany Rock ‘n’ Rye, a track by jazz guitarist Tal Farlow, but he did not get far with the editing. He returned to the material in 1980 but died before it was completed. His assistant Steven Jones finished the film under the supervision of Lye’s widow Ann, who had been closely involved with all of Lye’s American films. - Harvard Film Archive

When you’re asleep
Movie

When you’re asleep(1998)

2Minutes

This little film, which juxtaposes animated sand and scratching on 16mm film, was made during studies at the Royal College of Art. The starting point of this film was the sentence "but it's always when you're asleep that I want to talk to you", read on a wall in the underground... a phrase actually taken from a Mano Solo song.

Consumed
Movie

Consumed(2013)

5Minutes

A parable of fire and grace, hand-scratched on 16mm, frame-by-frame.

Op Hop/Hop Op
Movie

Op Hop/Hop Op(1966)

6.3
4Minutes

A hand-made, scratched-on film experiment in intermittent animation. The images are a group of twenty-four visuals, all non-representational, which arrange and rearrange on the screen in many combinations. The result is a changing pattern of sound and image that has its own rhythm for eye and ear.

Scratch
Movie

Scratch(2000)

6.5
3Minutes

In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are scratched directly on 35 mm film.

Cameras Take Five
Movie

Cameras Take Five(2003)

7.2
3Minutes

The enduring romance of the lines. A visual exploration of Dave Brubeck's jazz classic "Take Five".

Light Work Mood Disorder
Movie

Light Work Mood Disorder(2006)

26Minutes

Film artist Jennifer Reeves and musician Anthony Burr collaborated to make this live film and music performance, which mixes and subverts symbols of science, industry, medicine and madness. Up to 4 screens and 4 channels of multi-layered music immerse the audience in colorful rhythmic molecular forms, morphing frequencies and visual textures, which are broken down to the particle. Found images from the 20th century educational films are sewn together with melted down pharmaceuticals affixed directly to the film, and form a concentrated fusion with pulsating electronic sounds and an acoustic multi-tonal bass clarinet. Illustrations of brain dendrites, synapses, waveforms and assembly lines personify the movement of frequencies and light as they envelop the audience. As the performance ensues, the intensity builds to a point of irresistible danger and rupture.

Is A Thresh Hold
Movie

Is A Thresh Hold

3Minutes

A 16mm experiment using negatives, hand-scratched film, and the rhythm of manual editing to call upon the experience of moments beyond reality.

DirectorsCJ Hibbeln
Minuet
Movie

Minuet(2003)

1Minutes

An essay in colour harmonics and visual overtones. Conceived and produced as part of the Images Film Festival's Minute Movies.

Absence of Satan
Movie

Absence of Satan(1985)

5Minutes

A beautiful woman screams at something unseen off camera. Paul Newman appears eating salad and soon the famous sequence of Paul Newman closing a car door cut with a helicopter takes place. Absence of Satan is probably one of George Barber's best Scratch works and is a deft reworking of cinematic narrative and cliché. George Barber is one of the pioneers of Scratch Video which emerged in the UK during the mid-1980s. Scratch video makes use of found images from films and television, cutting seemingly incongruous imagery together to make a new meaning; it has been compared to the record-scratching techniques of hip-hop music, hence the name. (lux.org.uk)

DirectorsGeorge Barber

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