experimental

Bot & Dolly: “Box” Interview and Behind the Scenes

As a follow up to our earlier post regarding the debut of Bot & Dolly’s mind-boggling short, “Box,” (above) we’re sharing an interview with the… Read more

Takashi Ohashi: Kou Kou

Takashi Ohashi presents us the brilliant piece: KouKou. A series of abstract images synchronized to Japanese vocal sounds. Check out his other works here.

Cyriak: Bonobo “Cirrus”

Cyriak is no stranger to Motionographer. His experiments in looping animations are the closest thing you can get to a mind-altering experience without ingesting psychedelic… Read more

Adam Powell: Sivu “Better Man Than He”

Adam Powell directs Sivu’s “Better Man Than He,” using MRI-based imagery

Nicholas Ferreira and Dominik Grejc: MOVA Title Sequence

Check out these slick titles for MOVA, a fictitious Motion Design Festival dreamed up by Nicholas Ferrira and Dominik Grejc as part of their final… Read more

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.”