Having a Brother

Aleph

“Aleph” is an artist’s meditation on life, death, mysticism, politics, and pop culture. In an eight-minute loop of film, Wallace Berman uses Hebrew le

1966

Eyewash

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

1959

Plane Daffy

Daffy Duck is a message courier bird delivering a military secret that a femme fatale Nazi spy is determined to get.

1944

Tick Tock Tuckered

Porky and Daffy are workers at an aircraft company and are chronically late. Why? Because they have a great deal of trouble getting to sleep, between

1944

Carsten & Gitte's Movie Madness

Anders Morgenthaler's two puppet friends Carsten and Gitte present a compilation of six short animation and puppet films, directed by Karla Nielsen, R

2008

My Friend the Monkey

A hurdy-gurdy man goes by Betty Boop's house; she wants to buy his monkey, which causes plenty of trouble for Pudgy the Pup.

1939

Bug Crawls

In a solemn, haunted environment, a small bug crawls over the silhouette of a house.

2004

Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

In this Halloween Special, Babs Bunny plays the part of host as she and the Tiny Toons gang spoof various popular horror movies and TV shows. Among t

1995

Kaleidoscope

For Kaleidoscope, which was sponsored by Churchman Cigarettes, Lye animated stenciled cigarette shapes and is said to have experimented by cutting out

1935

The Birth of the Robot

This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many European filmmake

1936

Swinging the Lambeth Walk

Lye edited together “swing” versions of the popular Lambeth Walk (including Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stephane Grapelli on violin), combining the

1940

Particles in Space

Lye completed his last great film a few months before his death at the age of 78. The film returned to the black-and-white techniques of Free Radicals

1980

Tal Farlow

Lye created a series of scratched images in the 1950s – more regular or geometric than his usual style – to accompany Rock ‘n’ Rye, a track by jazz gu

1981

The EGGcited Rooster

Foghorn Leghorn's sharp-tongued, domineering wife orders him to sit on their egg while she goes out to play bridge, but Foghorn becomes careless, allo

1952

Eremittkrepsen

A day from the life of 8-year old girl and her crab.

1996

The Fresh Vegetable Mystery

Crime strikes the vegetable world when Mrs. Mama Carrot awakens and finds her children have been carrot-napped. She summons the Irish-Potato Police an

1939

Dad's Dead

Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno. Well known for being a showman and a keen one f

2002

Going Equipped

A young man in prison is interviewed and talks about his life, how he got into prison, and what it's like doing time.

1990

Early Bird

The morning shift at a big-city radio station.

1983

Great

An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century - includin

1975