Genres: Animation

  • Didre Novo

    A blistering life-or-death run through cinema’s graphic jungle. “Didre Novo”, the second act of the “Shadows and Caves” triptych, establishes the second set of scientific criteria the language of movement on screen. Is it possible to perceive sound as movement? The perception of depth is the cave path ahead of us, and the sun’s light is beginning to diminish with every footstep we take.

  • Pepper Steak

    This is the final confrontation with uncertainty. The sheer terror and joy of tomorrow’s newspaper – delivered today! In this, the third and final act of the “Shadows and Caves” triptych, the social and scientific dialectic between form, texture, and abstract and representational images puts forward the question: does one plus one equal three?

  • Son of Dada

    A subtle little narrative; an abstracted interlude between sound and silence, motion and stability, and light and darkness. “Son of Dada” is the first act of the 16mm “Shadows and Caves” triptych that were produced between 1982-1984. In the first act, letters become forms, having been stripped from the context of words and language, and ultimately, from the logic of sentences. What remains? Pure cinema, perhaps … language-written … on the threshold of liberty and silence within the grips of suspense.

  • Alpha Expedition, The

    A tale told with a profusion of animated cut-outs, and the occasional intrusion of an authorial hand or head. Entering Deep Space, a team of scientists has been given the mission of discovering the Alpha Point, that point where our universe began in the Big Bang. Depression and elation flow through them, childhood memories haunt them, boredom drags at their extended lives.

  • 1:1

    This cameraless animation is about the 1:1 relationship between sound & picture: the 1:1 concept became the structure for the entire piece and spawns further thought about relationships between elements in cinema (artist to medium, viewer to screen, projector to film).

  • Bon Bon

    A candyland town kicks up its sugar heels for a midday parad

  • Red Book, The

    “The Red Book” is an elliptical, pictographic animated film that uses flat, painted figures and collage elements in both two and three-dimensional settings to explore the realms of memory, language, and identity from the point of view of a woman amnesiac. “The Red Book” suggests the ways in which language defines us, and reaches back into dismemberment myths about creation of different tongues through the breaking apart of bodies (in this case, the woman’s body). As the film progresses, the submerged images of her stored memory appear and collide with the present world in circular rhythms, and there is a…

  • Lost Motion

    Gothic, mechanized and faintly arcane with a provocative erotic charge, Geiser‘s film floats the viewer in a surreal world of subconscious imaginings both seductive and deeply disturbing. “‘Lost Motion’ begins with a male toy figure set in a kitchen. We are familiar with this setting (we’ve all been in kitchens) but estranged from it as well (this kitchen is very creepy)….”- Barry Doyle

  • Self: (Portrait/Fulfillment) A Film by the Blob Thing

    After starring in several clay-animated shorts for filmmaker Brian Stockton, the perpetually depressed Blob Thing takes a turn behind the camera to direct this revealing self-portrait. Filmed in glorious wide-screen anamorphic 16mm.

  • Zig Zag

    A one-minute, 35mm cameraless animation.