Dreams, Built By Hand

Also known as The Age of the Barbarians "By any measure, Sándor Reisenbüchler is one of the most consequential film artists to emerge from post-war Hungary – a notion validated by his being awarded in 1993 the nation’s most prestigious cultural honour, the

Peak pop video?

Worth watching for the quaint-yet-eerie morphing and other early-digital FX.

Visual Music - a talk at the Tate Modern, July 27 2018 Presented by 4:3 as part of the Uniqlo Tate Late series There is a subset of experimental animation that is abstract and that practitioners and scholars call “visual music” I'm not an expert or schola…

At Hollow Earth, Matthew Ingram has a lovely recollection of favorite British animation from his childhood.

Would dearly like to see the whole of this film, based on Pamela Bone's amazing photographs Now did not know this Arena docu-drama existed - they do a good job telling Delia Derbyshire’s story in an elliptical and oneiric way that suits the music and the…

A video and music synthesis piece made with borrowed video synthesis equipment (Fairlight CVI and EMS Spectre) and my sound synthesizers at home.

Featuring the voiceover of Dorothy Moskowitz of United States of America fame.

Gene Youngblood Tapes on YouTube

"Six Men Getting Sick" was Lynch's first exploration into film, made during his second year of study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in Philadelphia.

"Sabin Bălașa was a contemporary Romanian painter, writer and director of animation films.

One of my interests is the weird electronic (or otherly avant or just nuttily absurdist) music on animations and experimental short films, sometimes done by a composer or someone the animator-director knows who has institutional access to synths and such,…

"Imagine an early Eighties Eastern European space-prog album high on sugary breakfast cereal, “Heavy Metal” magazine, Hanna-Barbera cartoons and 8-bit arcade games like Galaxian and Asteroids, and you have some idea of the otherworldly weirdness of the Ro…

"Resident artist and consultant at Bell Laboratories (New Jersey).... during the 70s and 80s Schwartz developed a catalogue of visionary techniques for the use of the computer system by artists.

Muzyka: Eugeniusz Rudnik Józef Robakowski "An integral part of Robakowski's work are his statements and self-commentaries, as well as numerous programming texts and manifestoes, e.g.

"If you want to see the West as you’ve never seen it before, go to Japan.

"An experimental animation created by Osamu Tezuka to explore the possibilities of expression.

Animation appears to be the work of Brainfoodmedia

"... while still remembered as a Bauhaus designer, painter and teacher, Oskar Schlemmer’s contribution to dance gets little more than a passing reference.

An animation created by Jules Evens, one of my students at California Institute of the Arts (with sounds contributed by another student, Zhu Dongchen).

(via Andrew Parker) "Animated Putty" (1911) "Walter Booth made a number of films that began to explore the potential of stop-motion to bring cut-outs, string, and here clay to life.

Music by Toru Takemitsu "....

via Peter Stanfield Watch The Looking Cure - a mini-doc about John Hofsess's Palace of Pleasure - made by Stephen Broomer.