Functional Block Diagrams

Luminare

May 1986 •English

Abstract video art by John Sanborn and Dean Winkler. Dedicated to Ed Emshwiller.

The Albatross

January 1998 •English

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

Lo Schiaccianoci al Teatro alla Scala

December 2022 •Italian

A Night at the Biltmore Bowl

June 1935 •English

Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.

Battle

September 2018 •Norwegian

Amalie is the girl who has everything, good looks, money, a boyfriend and a big talent of dancing. One day, her world falls apart and she moves from everything she knows. Then enter Mikael. He is dancing in the streets and Amalie joins him in dancing on the streets, dancing Battles.

Red Razor On Soft Skin

March 2026 •English

A giallo horror film about Benny Lazar, a timid son forced by his mother Moira to get a shave and a haircut from a mysterious barber. What ensues is a Technicolor nightmare of love, hate, betrayal, and self-destruction.

Mi Unico Hijo

July 2024 •Tagalog

A young man must choose between his mother's plans or to follow his lifelong goal as a session musician.

Dissipative Dialogues

March 1982 •English

Black calligraphic line reveals a series of evanescent encounters between a man and a woman, ending finally in a kiss.

Radiant Flux

March 1999 •English

There is no mass, but only waves of energy flowing continuously outwards towards our future leaving traces of luminescent color.

Line Dance

March 2008 •English

Linear waves of color repeat and overlap in a meditative dance of life

Meditations

March 2013 •English

Sensuality intrudes upon abstract meditation until it is at one with it.

China Violet

March 2014 •English

As he leaves China after five years, Ehrlich created a gentle ode to the Chinese land and its people.

Ovary-Acting

June 2025 •English

A harried thirty-something woman is forced to decide whether she wants to be a mother after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs at her sister’s baby shower.

Nocturne

April 2025 •English

A musical fantasia on religion and the nature of exploitation.

Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

April 2024 •English

A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small Fry (1939), Dinah (1933), The Old Man of the Mountain (1933), and Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936).

The Mysterious Castles in the Carpathians

Invalid date •Romanian

A short film documenting the city of Bucharest, The Carpathian mountains, Brasov and Various castles in Romania including Bran and Peles Castle.

Cadaverous Dreamscape of an Unborn Maggot

August 2025 •English

Experimental animation made with nails, hair, teeth and a doll.

25 October, the First Day

October 1968 •Russian

A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the revolutionary period.

Tea for Two Hundred

December 1948 •English

Donald is preparing a little picnic when he sees some ants passing by. He decides to tease one, ultimately by piling lots of food onto it. The ant eventually stumbles, but realizes Donald is sitting on a veritable gold mine. He rallies his fellow ants, and while Donald is napping, they cart him to a cliff and drop him into the river. When he returns to the raid in progress, he finds himself powerless to stop it. He dynamites the ant hill, but that only separates the ledge he's standing on, and he finds himself in the river again as the ants finish off a cupcake.

The Frog Princess

December 1954 •Russian

A prince discovers an enchanted beauty turned into a frog by Koschei the Immortal. After Koschei steals her again, the prince goes on a dangerous quest to free the land of the evil.