Dreaming

Heaven and Earth Magic

January 1962 •English

The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel and Montreal. The second part depicts the return to Earth from being eaten by Max Müller on the day Edward VII dedicated the Great Sewer of London.

Occurrences of Questionable Significance

April 2020 •German

When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.

Quilt

January 1996 •English

An abstract animated film, using computer and experimental techniques in choreographing quilt motifs and designs to music. A tribute to the unique and long-established art form of patchwork quilting. A film without words.

Papers.

January 1991 •Japanese

Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao

Third Interpolation

January 1999 •English

Shapes projected onto an abstract environment. The movement and scale of the forms in the film is a beautiful equivalent of the dynamics of the soundtrack

Nocturne no.248

January 2008 •English

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore.

Beyond Picasso

January 1986 •English

Schwartz reordered and combined angular contours, broken planes, and distorted proportions in her own pictorial structures in an homage to Picasso's style.

Claire

February 2016 •

Claire is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of a series of three ink-on-paper artworks created in 2012 by French-Spanish researcher, publisher and artist Claire Latxague. While collecting drawings, written documents and other printed materials for a (yet unreleased) project called Un film de papier, I’ve stumbled upon Latxague’s artwork, entitled À la renverse. The blow-ups were made in an attempt of unearthing cartographic imagery in abstract compositions.

Layla

December 2018 •English

In this 60 second art piece, a dog named Layla is called upon by nature to defend harmless daisy flowers from the wild grass that is conquering their territory.

La Señal Cósmica

November 2018 •Spanish

The film was produced applying mixed techniques on Super 8 film support.

Teddy Bear Maelstrom

January 1983 •English

An Animated Short Film by Glen Entis

Impromptu

January 2017 •

A journey to the origins of cinema, starting with its forgotten fathers: the pioneers who achieved moving images before 1895, the official year of the Lumière cinematograph. Through five studies by Frédéric Chopin, 'Impromptu' is also a tribute to the end of the 19th century, to its immortal muses, and to the fascination with movement itself.

ANTHROPOD

December 2022 •English

A creature traverses an uncertain terrain

Speaker

March 1980 •Polish

A portrait of a speaker, engrossed in his own speech, finds the hall empty.

Dimensions

May 2016 •

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns. As with an atom, the variety of possibilities from a base movement is potentially infinite.

Segunda na Urna

September 2022 •Portuguese

A family political disagreement is interpreted under a dreamlike logic, where the protagonist is emotionally divided.

Morten Somnia

January 2024 •Spanish

Anoche

June 2017 •Spanish

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy soundtrack. Fragmented lines, exploding bass frequencies and flickering.

Snares

July 2017 •English

Experimental short film by Rainer Kohlberger

Embryo No.M

July 1971 •Macedonian

The story of a man who has reached the very top of society and eventually became a victim of his own ideology.