experimental

RIP Chris Marker

If there ever was a “motionographer”, an artist who used film and pen with equal eloquence, it was filmmaker Chris Marker who died today on… Read more

Much Better Now

The studio Salon Alpin (Portugal) has recently released this fantastic in-house piece called Much Better Now. In their words: Much Better Now is an independent… Read more

Oscar Lhermitte: Experiments

Check out Oscar Lhermitte’s experiments on vimeo: Seeing in Circles and Revolve.

Andrew Thomas Huang: Solipsist

You loved the trailer. Now you can enjoy it online in full. Winner at Slamdance 2012 of the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short, Solipsist… Read more

John Whitney: Permutations

John Whitney: Permutations Produced in 1966. Written in GRAF and FORTRAN,  and recorded in black and white from the monitor of an IBM 360 mainframe.… Read more

Cinemetrics — film data visualization

Frederic Brodbeck’s Cinemetrics analyzes movie data to create visual fingerprints.

Michael Langan: Heliotropes

Michael Langan’s new short film Heliotropes is fresh off the film fest circuit. Heliotropes documents the parallel goals of man and nature, through the most… Read more

Compressed 02

Who would of thought taking a bubble bath could be so beautiful? (Thanks, Arvid.)

Polynoid: Loom

Yes, Polynoid‘s long-awaited short Loom is finally online. And it’s amazing! The plot is as simple as “a moth being caught in a spider’s web”,… Read more

Charlex: Shape Shifter

Charlex has recently created Shape Shifter, a larger-than-life film that’s been attracting remarkable attention online since its release. From the pieces of an exploded car,… Read more

NOMINT: “The Holy Chicken of Life & Music”

“The Holy Chicken of Life & Music”, a short film by NOMINT recently won the Community Choice Award in the Experimental Category of the Vimeo… Read more

Superestudio: “Inactivo”

Inactivo is the latest short film by Lamole, the B side of Argentinian Superestudio. It’s about a woodcutter’s brave journey through a gloomy forest of… Read more

Savas Ozay: “Weather Tests”

Weather Tests, by Savas Ozay, is an experimental film that illustrates the physics of each season.

Phosphene

Another killer experiment in mixed media from Benjamin Ducroz: Phosphene.  Also, check out his latest reel and other recent work at ducroz.com.

Jacques Khouri: Time and Again

Jacques Khouri rethinks sequential art and animation with “Time and Again”

Celestial Navigations

Ah, Block City…remember it like it was yesterday. Al Jarnow created some of the most memorable experimental shorts of the 70s/80s.  Pick up a copy… Read more

Psychoscopic by Superestudio / Lamole

This is a couple of years late, but awesome nevertheless. Psychoscopic is the follow up of the also amazing Implosion from Buenos Aires based Superestudio… Read more

Datdatdat is creating some interesting experiments in Berlin as part of the We Are Chopchop collective

Datdatdat is creating some interesting experiments in Berlin as part of the We Are Chopchop collective

Alex Delany: Walking Crowd

Simple concept and entrancing execution combine in Alex Delany’s “Walking Crowd.”

Review: Gangpol & Mit “Faits Divers”

My first introduction to French duo Gangpol & Mit (Guillaume Castagne and Sylvain Quément) was through their music. It wasn’t until recently that I learned… Read more

(Geek Alert!) The Esquire AR Issue

While many other motion studios try to find their way to the interactive future, Psyop teamed up with the digital aces at The Barbarian Group… Read more

Scan Processor Studies

Excerpt from Woody Vasulka & Brian O’Reilly’s “Scan Processor Studies” project

The Animated Life & Work of Jeff Scher

Jeff Scher: I Got My Job Through the NY Times. Short Documentary by Reid Rosefelt. Jeffery Noyes Scher was born in 1954 and graduated from… Read more

Takafumi Tsuchiya (takcom)

Lots of cool  experimental projects over at Takafumi Tshuchiya’s (takcom) vimeo channel