Movies: Computer animation

  • 1959
    High Voltage

    High Voltage (1959)

    High Voltage

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    High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts....

    High Voltage
  • 1988
    JabJabLand

    JabJabLand (1988)

    JabJabLand

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    Computer animated short film screened at SIGGRAPH. Inspired by the imaginary creatures described in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass....

    JabJabLand
  • 1969
    Y si pienso

    Y si pienso (1969)

    Y si pienso

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    Y si pienso
  • 2017
    Divisional Articulations

    Divisional Articulations (2017)

    Divisional Articulations

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    Repetition 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 ...

    Divisional Articulations
  • 1978
    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

    3/78 (Objects and Transformations) (1978)

    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

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    Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied by the sound of a Shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute), the film is an exercise in the visual perce...

    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)
  • 1987
    Interior

    Interior (1987)

    Interior

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    Short experimental computer animation by Jules Engel...

    Interior
  • 1979
    Two Space

    Two Space (1979)

    Two Space

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    Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the tile patterns of Islamic temples, are generated by performing a set of symmetry operations (translatio...

    Two Space
  • 1995
    Moaï's Dream

    Moaï's Dream (1995)

    Moaï's Dream

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    Summoned into life by a god-like deity, two Easter Island statues engage in a fierce battle in outer space....

    Moaï's Dream
  • 1997
    The Christmas Brigade

    The Christmas Brigade (1997)

    The Christmas Brigade

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    Lead by the newly-reformed Burton the elf with the aid of young Jennifer and Isaac the elf, the Christmas Brigade sets out to stop the evil Dr. D and to fulfill Santa's mission to bring the magic of Christmas to every single day of the year....

    The Christmas Brigade
  • 2017
    Ben and Big

    Ben and Big (2017)

    Ben and Big

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    Madame Fetid is a supremely vain, horribly wicked witch. To retain her youth, magic requires that she eat living things - plants, insects - people. Ah, people, very good - powerful youth potion. And children, oh the very best of all, those wonderful,...

    Ben and Big
  • 2015
    Crash Testing

    Crash Testing (2015)

    Crash Testing

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    A car crash test dummy makes a flipbook to express the existence of itself....

    Crash Testing
  • 1979
    Sunstone

    Sunstone (1979)

    Sunstone

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    Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller....

    Sunstone
  • 2024
    Origami

    Origami (2024)

    Origami

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    Origami is a Japanese traditional art form of paper folding. This film explores the infinite possibilities of origami to bring life and wonder to the simplest material. Every aspect of the film is based on the skills and techniques used in actual ori...

    Origami
  • 1993
    JuJu Shampoo

    JuJu Shampoo (1993)

    JuJu Shampoo

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    In today’s busy world, even a shrunken head has a hard time keeping her hair shiny and clean....

    JuJu Shampoo
  • 2007
    Cook, Mug, Cook!

    Cook, Mug, Cook! (2007)

    Cook, Mug, Cook!

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    A portrait of the ordinary life, passing time, routine and the contacts between characters....

    Cook, Mug, Cook!
  • 1969
    Knotte Grosse Loops

    Knotte Grosse Loops (1969)

    Knotte Grosse Loops

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    These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent Filmmakers grant to produce Knotte Grosse but it was unfinished at the time of his death. The images allude to...

    Knotte Grosse Loops
  • 1968
    Experiments in Motion Graphics

    Experiments in Motion Graphics (1968)

    Experiments in Motion Graphics

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    John H. Whitney Sr. explains the graphic art potential of the computer and the methods and philosophy involved in his computer filmmaking. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012....

    Experiments in Motion Graphics
  • 2013
    Wido

    Wido (2013)

    Wido

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    Wido is a game to help young teenagers discover Norse Mythology. It is played on a tablet with a connected smartphone used as a controller....

    Wido
  • 2010
    Ballface.

    Ballface. (2010)

    Ballface.

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    Tracking & compositing experiments....

    Ballface.
  • 2021
    Stop That Pine Tree!

    Stop That Pine Tree! (2021)

    Stop That Pine Tree!

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    A woodcutter leaves home to cut down a pine tree for his Christmas tree. What he didn't expect was that one of the pine trees he decided to cut down... Runs away!...

    Stop That Pine Tree!