La Costante di Archimede

The Bomb

June 2017 •English

Filmmakers use archival footage and animation to explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire and the perverse appeal they still exert.

Impressions from the Upper Atmosphere

January 1989 •Spanish

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

The Adventures of *

January 1957 •English

Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.

Perpetual Motion

October 1920 •English

Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

1984

January 1983 •English

A film commissioned and conceived by the artist Eduardo Paolozzi using drawings and photocopies provided by him. A non-narrative film focusing on Paolozzi's themes about modern man.

Bambi Meets Godzilla

July 1969 •English

Bambi is nibbling the grass, unaware of the upcoming encounter with Godzilla. Who will win when they finally meet? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Before Before

October 2012 •English

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

Twilight

July 2019 •English

An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors.

13 Years Later

July 2019 •English

A perfect blending of the art of maths and the maths of art.

Let X Equal X

July 2019 •English

A sequence of hand-drawn experiments. Constants: visualist, technology, run time. Independent variables: musician, drawing materials, theme. Dependent variables: you tell me!

_ImEdge

January 2018 •English

A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree.

VIVAldi VVinter

February 2018 •English

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

Keep on Turning

January 1972 •

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

Capolavoro

September 2013 •English

Directed by Emanuelle Pasorelli, this arthouse film makes little sense. A man, who may or may not be a thief, with a nagging wife hears a beautiful woman in his head, and both conspire to make him go mad as he lives in anguish over his role in his friend Luigi's death. Actor's mouths rarely move, yet the player can hear their voices, a technique the director used in several films. The ladder in the end symbolizes something, that is unknown of what.

Socrates' Adventures in the Under Ground

March 2021 •Spanish

A Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revision of the Allegory of the Cave, filled with talking animals who shall be late and bourgeois queens who would like to see you without a head, exactly as Plato intended.

En modell

January 2003 •

Black and white animation based on Munch's art of work. The image changes gradually and resembles at one point The Scream.

A Night Story

January 2005 •Swedish

Once upon a time, a mother would no longer be available. Animated film in black and white about how unreal it is to lose a close relative. And parents wish they could say to their children that all fairy tales end well.

Fantaisie érotique

January 1936 •Czech

The Van

June 2025 •Catalan

Living in a van on the outskirts of Barcelona, Bear (Pol López) does everything he can to give his six-year-old daughter a life filled with joy, even when there's little to hold onto. Between unsteady routines and fragile hopes, their bond becomes a quiet act of resistance. A heartfelt story about love, dignity, and the small miracles that can bloom in the hardest places.

Attaque nocturne

June 1948 •French

The film existed only in Jacque’s memory because all that remained were the two cardboard thief characters. Jacques called upon his memories to recreate the decor and the characters with a decorator. The operator then filmed frame by frame to reconstruct the film.