A factory worker in a dark, gray world assembles devices that promise happiness. In his spare time he tinkers to create something better, and finally...

Images from 2000s music videos are transferred onto the film strip, torn and abstracted until the visuals convulse and shift—a tactile, poetic...

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...

An abstract film in which every motion of coloured shapes is in strict synchronization with music. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is...

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life in this experimental visual music film.

A previously lost political satire animation about Arturo Alessandri, the recently elect president of Chile at that time.

The muted despair and confusion of Rob Ford or something like that.

Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress...

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark...

In Don Hertzfeldt's second student film, a hapless cartoon character is dragged through a spectrum of cinematic situations by his frustrated animator.

An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.

An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.

An animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a poor young girl with a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life....

In stop-motion animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and...

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.

Buster Moon dreams up a star-studded spectacle set to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in this animated short featuring characters from the hit "Sing"...

A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his...