The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of human-made decay. In the blink of an eye 66 years pass by and a savings bank replaces a church.
The film summarizes the origin and development of animated film at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters.
The protagonist feels dead in waking life and alive in dreams.
An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which is a film projector with optical sound. He affixed his blood onto clear film leader by cutting into the flesh and then pressing the film leader onto the wound. Additionally he had blood taken with a syringe and afterwards dripped it on the film leader. fresh and clotted blood was used.
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
The virtual landscapes of a video game are transformed into an existential tale of solemn beauty.
In this child's game, a live-action boy and girl draw characters and compete who is better. The girl draws a flower and the boy draws a car that runs it over. Then a drawn lion chases a drawn girl, until it all becomes frightfully serious.
Sistiaga painted directly on 70mm film a circular (planetary?) form, around which dance shifting colours in a psychedelic acceleration matched by the soundtrack’s deep-space roar and howl. - Cinema Scope
Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.
A trippy pop-art collage of phallic objects, naked women and American icons, most notably Elvis Presley.
White Tape explores the theme of boundaries: the frame, the space between brushstrokes and the implications of occupation.
In the days of the apostles it was dangerous to follow Jesus. Today that danger remains. An animated film with today's persecuted church in mind.
First part of the Trilogy of the Island in which Poli Marichal expresses and vents the anger and frustration caused by the colonial situation.
Hand painted, scratched animated Super 8 film examining the contradictions of the psychopathology of colonization.
Combines animation, documentary footage, and hand-painted film as well as slide projections, a painted 12" x 24" backdrop, and sculptural palm tree to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Puerto Rican psyche.
A short film by Keiichi Tanaami featuring the song "Fushiawase to Iu Na no Neko" by Maki Asakawa.
Two criminals take a trip up the coast of California. As they arrive at a small town- what should just be a small stop on the way- one of them begins to feel as though they've been their before.