Solitud de Cristo

C'est l'aviron

One of a series of French-Canadian folk songs, this film was illustrated by Norman McLaren for the Chants populaires series. White gouache drawings on black cards were photographed with overlapping ‘zooms’ to suggest the forward movement of a canoe along rivers and lakes. This film appears in Chants populaires no. 5 and in Chants populaires no. 6.

79 primaveras

This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a nation-recounting his important accomplishments in the struggle against colonialism and imperialism.

When It Rains

A musician spends New Year's Day trying to help his friend pay the rent.

Tarantella

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials (visual and aural) are subject to any conceivable interrelation and modification.

LBJ

This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed by Lyndon Johnson as the dark figure who is plotting the anti-black rights movement.

Glimpse of the Garden

Experimental film showing film clips of a garden, with birds chirping for the soundtrack.

Cristaux liquides

Title cards introduce images we watch without narration; they are displays of shape and color. François de Roubaix's electronic music accompanies these images, photographed under a polarizing microscope. The crystals appear to move like tiny organisms: small four-part fans share the frame with flowing lines of pink. Multiple patterns appear side by side.

Experimental Documentary: Farmingish

Experimental Documentary on Sound & Cannabis

Pretty Land And Green Its Sighs

A short anecdotal documentary about the nature of destruction, a debilitating deadlock of humanity.

Demasked

A short stream of consciousness of a man who is drinking Absinthe to blur the lines between dominant and submissive identity.

Running Fields

Three images of a person running in the void through the movement of speed and abstract images

Ecopoiesis

Cosmic horror explores the elements and matter of so-called inanimate nature, which become actors and form a new ecosystem. A stream of depictions of fluid materials embedded into each other is accompanied by an unsettling soundtrack that reinforces the uncertainty of whether we are watching a cosmogonic or eschatological vision.

T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven

An experimental film of the group Throbbing Gristle in concert.

Know Thyself

A story of high school awkwardness, anxiety and ancient Greek philosophy, Samira Mian’s autobiographical animation Know Thyself recounts how a panic attack in 9th-grade Latin class sent her on a years-long odyssey of self-discovery. Entertaining and endearing, Mian’s portrait is also an insightful reflection on the inextricable connection between mind and body and the power of self-understanding.

The Organ Grinder

In this Merrie Melodies animated short, an organ grinder and his monkey make their way down a city street.

Rainbow Dance

Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film released by the GPO Film Unit. This is Lye's second film. It uses the Gasparcolor process.

Annabelle Serpentine Dance

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of the flowing cloth. She moves to her right and left across an unadorned stage. Many of the prints were distributed in hand-tinted color.

Bongo

Bongo, the performing bear, escapes from the circus and tries to adapt to life in the wild.

Snö

A mother and her son are driving through heavy snowfall to bid a final farewell to their dead husband and father. A sudden and unexpected wrong turning takes them to a completely different place from the one they had expected. Some memories exist in a borderland.