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Fledge

An immigrant teenage girl with feathers on her body, is torn between the need to belong and her own identity.

2021

Scope

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

2012

Blend

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 tooth

2009

Golden Hour

Filmmaking can sometimes be a very chaotic process. Allie is about to learn it as the director just got one last crazy idea.

2022

Verify Your Clock

A creative political short animation calling for saving time and increasing efficiency in national economic construction.

1963

Touch

Made when the director was at the Royal College of Art, an animated film illustrating that life is made up of a succession of meeting and partings.

1991

The Linear of Nightmare

Linear of Nightmare is a tongue and cheek piece about the pointless of fear. The film is a surreal self-inflicted mental infliction that ultimately le

2012

The Owl & the Pussycat

Short animation by Al Jarnow based on the work of British poet Edward Lear. Made at NYU.

1968

Scratching and Painting on Film

A stream of consciousness experiment committed directly to celluloid, Jarnow pays homage to Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith. Abstract designs transform

1968

Yak

Jarnow's first work for Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop - yak is a goofy take on the letter "Y."

1970

Tondo

Tondo introduces the cosmic formalism that was the primary theme of Al Jarnow's independent films. An infinite gridscape alternates with vibrating etc

1973

Four Quadrant Exercise

Intended to be an "animation machine," Four Quadrant Exercise finds Jarnow adapting a perspective system, enabling him to render complex motions almos

1975

Rotating Cubic Grid

The primary motif in this silent picture is a grid that controls the shapes and motions of forms contained within the framework of a rotating cube. Co

1975

Mars XX

A mad scientist invented a new weapon of mass destruction and offered it to the god of war. The animation was shot in the genre of political satire.

1969

Go! Saitama

The short follows Saitama after he discovers a 1-yen (about US$0.01) sale for high-grade hot-pot meat — but the sale ends at 5:00 p.m. that day.

2021

Kapaemahu

Long ago, four extraordinary beings of dual male and female spirit, led by Kapaemahu, brought certain healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii and were love

2020

Dummies

A dummy watches the days go by from his little shop, bored. But with the opening of a new store next to his, his life will change forever.

2013

Take Five

Early experimental film from Zbigniew Rybczynski that broke new ground in the use of pixelation, optical printing, animation and other compositional f

1972

Autosong

When Jill Jarnow won a blue Volkswagon in a design contest, and named the car Wart after the young king Arthur in T.H.White's The Sword and the Stone

1976

Life's Musical Minute

Life’s Musical Minute, recently re-discovered, is a short promotional film of this kind, based on Gene Krupa’s drum solo from “Golden Wedding” by the

1953