Paint On Film Movies

"Leiberg embarks on a search for the interaction between painting and improvised music, tinkering with sound collages sets language and sounds...

The clip shows a film fragment in which the French film comedian Fernandel shuffles along the street sadly and apparently aimlessly. Colours are...

Orbiting through the earth, a set of minerals that move (silver halures intervened), the female bodies acquire various expressions, is allowed to...

Film material from the forties found in a jumble sale adapted into a contemporary clip. An unknown female singer performs before the camera while...

An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which...

Tigre is an experimental film with animation applied directly onto film.

Each portrayed painter produced an experimental animated short film to be featured in this film. A short film by Herbert Seggelke.

Direct animation on 35mm.

An experiment concerning the attempts at creating a ‘moving image’ long before the invention of cinema. A re-experiencing of the history...

Brazilian animated film, hand-painted on 35mm film. The first version of this 1957 film, a single copy drawn and painted directly onto blank 35mm...

For Kaleidoscope, which was sponsored by Churchman Cigarettes, Lye animated stenciled cigarette shapes and is said to have experimented by cutting...

This joyful short animation features a dancing hen that transforms into an egg. The film was made without a camera by Norman McLaren, who drew...

Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.

An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his...

In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip....

One of Rimmer's early 2000s video works which he made by hand-painting 35mm film, running it on a flatbed viewer, and shooting it off the screen with...

Abstract film set to electronic music.

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...

Two characters on split screens collide, converse and argue as the city unspools kinetically behind them.

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he...