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- DirectorNorman McLarenAn experimental animated short in which images are drawn directly onto the film using a pen.
- DirectorLen LyeStarsRupert DooneThe film was made by colorful printing of footage combined with drawing directly on film. The bouncy music drives home the message heard at the end of the film, promoting the GPO (General Post Office): "The Post Office Savings Bank puts a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for you. No deposit too small for the Post Office Savings Bank."
- DirectorHideaki Anno
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoThe image of Mona Lisa positioned in the middle of a surrealist image play surrounding it.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoStarsToshio MatsumotoEngram is a three-part piece involving visuals such as photos inside of photos, movies inside of movies, photos inside of movies, and so on.
- DirectorGeorge Albert Smith
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoA psychedelic visual accomplishment with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of religious and other symbols) converging towards the center of the screen.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoA static shot of the sky with moving clouds is subdivided into regular geometrical regions, which are then individually and rhythmically manipulated.
- DirectorEd EmshwillerStarsCarol EmshwillerStoney EmshwillerThis 16mm Abstract Movie by the Ed Emshwiller is a masterful piece of Pure Cinema. It's wonderfully conceived, beautifully shot, tightly and lovingly edited and put together with a poignant gentle musical score. The optic/in-camera mechanical celluloid visual effects are emotionally Cinematic. This is a visual tone poem, a romantic poetic Love Letter to the movie maker's wife, Carol Emshwiller. The visual textures of the tree barks and the leaves on the branches being gently blown in the wind being double-exposed with the visual texture of Carol's facial skin is sensually pleasurable and expressive. The movie's pacing from a gentle slow rhythm to a kinetic and kinesthetic visual cascade of flashing and flickering colors and explosive motion and bright lights contrasting with dark shadows and shapes in super fast alternating spirals and bursts is exhilarating visceral emotionally intense cinema.
- DirectorEd EmshwillerStarsStoney EmshwillerElectronic Arts Intermix describes Ed Emshwiller's pioneering experimental concept video as a digital sculpture: "Sunstone is a landmark tape. Symbolic and poetic, it is a pivotal work in the development of an electronic language to articulate three-dimensional space. The opening image is an iconic face, which appears to be electronically 'carved' from stone. A mystical third eye, brilliantly crafted from a digital palette, radiates with vibrant transformations of color and texture. Sculpting electronically, Emshwiller then transforms perspectival representation: the archetypal 'sunstone' is revealed to be one facet of an open, revolving cube, each side of which holds a simultaneously visible, moving video image. Created with complex technology over an eight-month period, this emblematic spinning cube metaphorically describes a three-dimensional, temporal space, both hyperreal and simulated. Emshwiller's humanistic approach to technology ushered in the 1980s with a new electronic vocabulary for conceptualizing and visualizing images in space and time. Reflecting an image-saturated world. SUNSTONE marked a new stage in electronic art."
- DirectorJohn Whitney Sr.Psychedelic computer-animated film, to music by Terry Riley and Padre Antonio Soler, which consists of a group of triangles, squares and hexagon moving within an invisible matrix.
- DirectorMax HattlerRepetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music and geometric digital animation collide in an electronic feedback loop, spawning arrays of divisional articulations in time and space.
- DirectorGodfrey ReggioStarsAngelica PreziosiA haunting look at children watching television.
- DirectorPaul DriessenAnimator Paul Driessen sets eight interlocking tales to the music of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in this animated short.