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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: 2,204
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: 3,302
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: 2,861
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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: 1,483
10. 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: 1,455
11. 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: 1,732
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: 554
13. 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: 1,480
14. 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: 1,197
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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: 1,159
18. 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
19. 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: 1,208
20. Kaleidoscope (1935)
4 min | Animation, Short
Animation of colorful kaleidoscopic shapes set to jazzy music.
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 191
21. Glaze of Cathexis (1990)
3 min | Short
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which captures various images and light.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 740
22. Dots (1940)
3 min | Short, Animation
An experimental film of dots animated by being drawn directly on filmstock.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,030
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: 839
24. 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: 859
25. Projekt/Wo/Projektion/Du (2013)
9 min | Short, Romance
Director: Björn Last | Stars: Carsten Benger, Eduardo Cerveira, Marlene Denningmann, Jan Eichberg
Votes: 5
26. 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
27. Lines: Horizontal (1962)
6 min | Animation, Short
Lines: Horizontal is a movie made by etching lines directly onto film, like its sister Lines: Vertical. The entire movie consists of horizontal lines dancing in various mathematical patterns to beautiful music.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 464
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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
31. Qissbah: What Is Not a Story? (2016)
28 min | Short, Drama, Mystery | Completed
A screenwriter with a dysfunctional marriage sets out to find the truth about a mythical place of storytellers where people are said to find Nirvana; the same place his father had left him and his mother for, never to return again.
Director: Dev Gupta | Stars: Dev Raj Ghosh, Tanushree Baruah, Minakshi Hazarika Saikia, Kunal Sarma
Votes: 14
32. 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: 243
33. Lights (1966)
6 min | Documentary, Short
A short film which uses light to convey emotion and beauty.
Director: Marie Menken
Votes: 286
34. Boogie-Doodle (1941)
4 min | Animation, Short
From the opening credits: "An experimental film (...) made without camera, by drawing directly upon 35 mm film with an ordinary pen and ink." Various abstract shapes interact and transform into one another.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 612
35. 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
36. 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
37. 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: 565
38. 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
39. Threshold (1972)
13 min | Short
The initial use of red and green filters gives way to a broad variety of colors and the introduction of abstract strips of light which are drawn through the printer begins to build an image which becomes graphically and spatially complex.
Director: Malcolm le Grice
Votes: 46
40. The Artifice (2009)
7 min | Short, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.
Director: Misagh Alami | Stars: Marlon Lewis, Paul Watkins, Misagh Alami, Danielle Gold
42. Short and Suite (1959)
5 min | Animation, Short
The various moods in music written for a jazz ensemble by Eldon Rathburn are translated into moving patterns of colour and light. This lively short is composed of images hand-scratched and hand-painted directly onto the film strip.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 239
43. 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: 1,178
44. Ég Anda (2012)
6 min | Short, Music
'Ég Anda' is a visual composition of interpretive movement and abstract forms traversing between ethereal and tangible existence. To visually express the purity of the journey, no ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Badlotto | Star: Amalia Gutierrez
Votes: 12
46. Everdeath (2021)
2 min | Short, Horror
An abstract, experimental horror short exploring snow, guilt, and isolation.
Director: Andrew Carstairs | Star: Andrew Carstairs
47. Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1940)
Not Rated | 4 min | Animation, Short
A film made without a camera by painting directly onto the celluloid.
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 229
49. 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
50. Liminal (II) (2020)
4 min | Short, Horror
An abstract, experimental 'lost-footage' short horror film. Liminal explores leaving light for dark, and the effects of absence or presence of light.
Director: Andrew Carstairs