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1. Milk (III) (2017)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Modern family runs a perfect house and lives ideal life until one day they notice a cow in the middle of their kitchen.
Director: Daria Vlasova | Stars: Yaroslava Bazaeva, Mariya Bolonkina, Vitaly Khodin, Gleb Orlov
Votes: 33
2. Return to Reason (1923)
3 min | Short
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
Director: Man Ray | Star: Kiki of Montparnasse
Votes: 2,220
3. Ballet mécanique (1924)
19 min | Short
A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, ... See full summary »
Directors: Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy | Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, Katherine Murphy
Votes: 3,307
4. Life Lessons (2013 Video)
27 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
In this Story by Richard Price, Lionel Dobie is an acclaimed artist who finds himself unable to paint before a gallery exhibition and uses his messy lifestyle to create artwork.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: David Fichtenmayer, Kellie Marie McGhee, Hayley Pendergrass, Alexander Raye Pimentel
Votes: 56
5. Mothlight (1963)
4 min | Short
A "found foliage" film composed of insects, leaves, and other detritus sandwiched between two strips of perforated tape.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 2,865
6. Lichtspiel Opus 1. (1921)
13 min | Animation, Short, Music
Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular, some ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Votes: 969
7. Lucifer, God's Most Beautiful Angel (1991)
4 min | Short
Lucifer, God's most beautiful angel. Lucifer was the prince of angels, the bearer of light. He placed his own beauty and perfection above his love for God. This sin of pride caused his fall... See full summary »
Director: Barry J. Hershey
Votes: 21
8. Cinq minutes de cinéma pur (1926)
5 min | Short
An experimental avant-garde film from director Henri Chomette in which the pure elements of form are emphasized.
Director: Henri Chomette
Votes: 299
9. Diagonal Symphony (1924)
7 min | Animation, Short, Music
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The ... See full summary »
Director: Viking Eggeling
Votes: 1,481
10. Begone Dull Care (1950)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Music
Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,733
11. J.S. Bach - Fantasy in G Minor (1965)
Not Rated | 10 min | Animation, Short, Music
A man plays the Bach piece of the title on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, intercut with images of doors and wire-meshed windows.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 862
12. Now Hear This (1962)
Approved | 6 min | Family, Short, Animation
In this very abstract cartoon, a hard-of-hearing old Britisher finds a red horn and uses it as a megaphone, unaware that it is really a lost horn from the Devil's forehead. The Britisher ... See full summary »
Directors: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 556
13. Dog Star Man: Part I (1962)
30 min | Short
The first part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,568
14. Rhythmus 21 (1921)
3 min | Animation, Short
Black and white rectangular images fade in and out of the screen. Their movement make them sometimes look like they're panning from side to side. Their movement also make the black and ... See full summary »
Director: Hans Richter
Votes: 1,459
15. Free Radicals (1958)
5 min | Animation, Short, Music
Display the graph that follows traditional African music's voice strains of sway, between music and graphics so mix and so gave the impression of beauty in the melting pot of musical art and graphics.
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 1,209
16. Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)
25 min | Short
The prelude to Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,486
17. Science Friction (1959)
10 min | Animation, Short
This film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics and science in the nuclear era. The advancement of science allows man to do things he never would have... See full summary »
Director: Stan Vanderbeek
Votes: 329
18. Dots (1940)
3 min | Short, Animation
An experimental film of dots animated by being drawn directly on filmstock.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,031
19. Glaze of Cathexis (1990)
3 min | Short
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which captures various images and light.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 743
20. Dog Star Man: Part III (1964)
11 min | Short, Drama
The third part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,160
21. A Colour Box (1935)
Not Rated | 3 min | Animation, Short
Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 973
22. Lapis (1966)
10 min | Animation, Short
Mathematically precise early computer-aided animated piece based around the meditative-like inward and outward flow of images of the mandala.
Director: James Whitney
Votes: 403
23. Filmstudie (1926)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short
Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray's work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.
Director: Hans Richter | Star: Stella F. Simon
Votes: 840
24. Tusalava (1929)
9 min | Short, Animation
With the screen split asymmetrically, one part in positive, the other negative, the film documents the evolution of simple celled organic forms into chains of cells then more complex images... See full summary »
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 300
25. Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964)
6 min | Drama, Short
The fourth and final part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,179
26. Lights (1966)
6 min | Documentary, Short
A short film which uses light to convey emotion and beauty.
Director: Marie Menken
Votes: 286
27. Film Exercise #1 (1943)
5 min | Animation, Short
An experimental computer animation film series from John Whitney Sr.
Directors: John Whitney Sr., James Whitney
Votes: 127
28. Opus IV (1925)
4 min | Animation, Short
Walter Ruttmann's (Metropolis 1927) fourth abstract animated short in the series. In this the last film he has found a cohesion between the music and the action. The synergy between the music and the on screen action can be felt.
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Votes: 416
30. Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)
11 min | Animation, Short
A short painted film by Oskar Fishchinger which films images to the music of Johann Bach.
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 573
31. Synchromy (1971)
7 min | Animation, Short
The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head. The ... See full summary »
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 566
32. Der Sieger (1921)
3 min | Animation, Short
An animated short film from German film directors Julius Pinschewer and Walter Ruttmann.
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Votes: 319
33. Infamy (2009)
5 min | Short, Drama
A surreal remembrance of the tragedy at the world trade center, on September 11th.
Director: Hassan Said
34. Dog Star Man: Part II (1963)
7 min | Short, Drama
The second part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Star: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,198
35. Odyssey (1986)
15 min | Short
The film is a visual poem shot in the Anza-Borrego Desert. The work portrays the odyssey of a woman/goddess/mankind from birth into innocence, through growth into pride and sin, to death, and then a transcendental reunion to the One.
Director: Barry J. Hershey | Star: Jennifer Green
Votes: 26
36. Black and White Laws in a Colorful World (2012)
15 min | Short, Drama, Music
An experimental, surrealistic film about equality, expressing the importance of equal rights for all. In a world where discrimination is still one of it's largest issues, Black and White ... See full summary »
Director: Jason Brickhill | Stars: Ed Moroney, Danielle Sadé James, Elizabeth Hoots, Aundrea Fares
37. Opus II (1921)
4 min | Animation, Short
As early as 1909, Walter Ruttmann explored the artistic properties of the film. His theoretical and practical work led in 1919 to the first "absolute film", Opus I. Ruttmann placed "painting more time" halfway between painting and music.
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Votes: 436
38. Look at me (2019)
4 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
In the building 2 cameras record mysteriously monster, which stop only with light.
Director: Sergey A. | Star: Sergey A.
Votes: 32
39. Silken (2008)
10 min | Short
Inside the protective warmth of his mother's womb, a man experiences everyday life as eternal bliss.
Directors: Yann Bertrand, Damien Serban | Star: Atsushi Takenouchi
Votes: 28
42. Dew Line (2005)
5 min | Animation, Short
"Dew Line" is an abstract tapestry of biomorphic forms that hints at the loss of botanical diversity. The title refers to the shapes created by condensation and to the line of radar ... See full summary »
Director: Joanna Priestley
Votes: 68
43. Shanty Town Olympics (1992)
4 min | Short, Thriller
Director: Emanuel Ruggeri | Stars: Frank Criscione, Dominic Zappavigna
44. Don Kihot (1961)
10 min | Animation, Short
Animated version of Don Quixote.
Director: Vlado Kristl
Votes: 171
45. Study No. 7 (1931)
3 min | Animation, Short
In Fischinger's study No. 7, the shapes of Study No. 6 move to the 5th Hungarian dance by Johannes Brahms.
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 244
48. Das Wunder (1922)
3 min | Animation, Short
Animated short subject advertising the Kantorowicz distillery, a Polish based family business specializing in liquids, spirits and fruit juices.
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Votes: 208
49. Duna (2020 Video)
Short, Sci-Fi
In the distant future on a world called Duna, four masked figures drag a large mysterious crate, travelling through a futuristic, fallen and unforgiving world. Who are these "men"? Where ... See full summary »
Director: Dion van Velzen | Stars: Djahlor Andrews, Dylan de Reus, Maurtizio Giannattasio, Andrew Harder