Mamori

Enigma: Nazo

July 1978 •Japanese

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious symbols) converging towards the centre of the screen.

Perspectrum

January 1975 •English

In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and re-form to the sound of the koto, a 13-stringed Japanese instrument.

Rectangle & Rectangles

January 1984 •English

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, colour filters and a camera. This animation film, without words, is designed to expose the power of the cinematic medium, and to illustrate the abstract nature of time.

Lost Utopia

January 2007 •Japanese

The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words.

Calypso

January 1955 •English

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.

Third Page from the Sun

January 2014 •French

Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has become obsolete by the digital dematerialization. A commentary on the fragility of culture.

Logos

July 1957 •English

Jane Conger Belson Shimane's first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The animated film featured an electronic score by Henry Jacobs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.

Precious Metal Variations

January 1983 •English

An abstract animation film in which a series of shapes rotate and evolve into other forms producing an illusion of depth. Colour, texture and superimposed images undergo structural variations. - MIFF

Scope

January 2012 •Japanese

This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue

Blend

January 2009 •Japanese

This short experiments with the flow of oil ink over the surface of the water. Mizue manipulated the ink by blowing with straws or stirring with toothpicks and used stop motion animation techniques to shoot the resulting effects.

Port of Wormy

January 2009 •Japanese

A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue.

Son of the White Mare

October 1981 •Hungarian

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.

Trip!-Trap!

January 2005 •Japanese

In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light. An expression of a chaotic world. This experimental graduation film is a mixture of different animation techniques

Serlasanha

February 2025 •Portuguese

Jam

July 2009 •Japanese

The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2008.After returning to Japan, I soon began making the film and completed it in four months.This film is based on a very simple idea: the increasingly varied the sounds, the greater is the number of creatures. I wanted to rid myself of the frustrating experience of making Devour Dinner, which was highly unsatisfactory from the viewpoint of the movement in the film. My intention in this film was to fill the screen with chaotic movements.

Untitled / Aubrac

March 2016 •English

Bag

November 2001 •Japanese

袋 Fukuro (Japanese for "bag" or "sack") is a 3-minute short film from 2001. It features Pyramid Head and a Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2, the Fukuro Lady, and many monsters from early sketches for Silent Hill 2. The film contains disturbing, surreal imagery.

Rhythm 23

June 1923 •German

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures bounce around on the now white background.

Heart String Marionette

June 2012 •English

A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into a never ending nightmare filled with horrible monsters.

A Fugue

July 2019 •English

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.