Paint On Film Movies

  • 1949
    Begone Dull Care

    Begone Dull Care

    Begone Dull Care

    6.71949HD

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

    Begone Dull Care
  • 1940
    Swinging the Lambeth Walk

    Swinging the Lambeth Walk

    Swinging the Lambeth Walk

    5.8161940HD

    Lye edited together “swing” versions of the popular Lambeth Walk (including Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stephane Grapelli on violin),...

    Swinging the Lambeth Walk
  • 1960
    Lines: Vertical

    Lines: Vertical

    Lines: Vertical

    5.21960HD

    An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against...

    Lines: Vertical
  • 1965
    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

    6.21965HD

    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...

    Early Abstractions
  • 1955
    Eine Melodie - vier Maler

    Eine Melodie - vier Maler

    Eine Melodie - vier Maler

    51955HD

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

    Eine Melodie - vier Maler
  • 1952
    Color Cry

    Color Cry

    Color Cry

    5.6111952HD

    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...

    Color Cry
  • 2013
    And Um

    And Um

    And Um

    82013HD

    Direct animation on 35mm.

    And Um
  • 1935
    Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope

    6.1671935HD

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

    Kaleidoscope
  • 1942
    Hen Hop

    Hen Hop

    Hen Hop

    61942HD

    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...

    Hen Hop
  • 1957
    All Souls Carnival

    All Souls Carnival

    All Souls Carnival

    4.51957HD

    Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

    All Souls Carnival
  • 2008
    Nunca Fuimos Allah Luna

    Nunca Fuimos Allah Luna

    Nunca Fuimos Allah Luna

    02008HD

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

    Nunca Fuimos Allah Luna
  • 2006
    McLaren's Negatives

    McLaren's Negatives

    McLaren's Negatives

    02006HD

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

    McLaren's Negatives
  • 2003
    On the Road to Kandahar

    On the Road to Kandahar

    On the Road to Kandahar

    02003HD

    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...

    On the Road to Kandahar
  • 2016
    Trans/Figure/Ground

    Trans/Figure/Ground

    Trans/Figure/Ground

    02016HD

    A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital.

    Trans/Figure/Ground
  • 2013
    Tigre

    Tigre

    Tigre

    02013HD

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

    Tigre
  • 2020
    Vulcania

    Vulcania

    Vulcania

    02020HD

    Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.

    Vulcania
  • 2017
    Luna

    Luna

    Luna

    02017HD

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

    Luna
  • 1960
    Allegro

    Allegro

    Allegro

    01960HD

    Handmade, direct animation film using rubber based masking material and colored dye. Rhthmic colored linear patterns of abstract grids move in...

    Allegro
  • 2005
    Pan of the Landscape

    Pan of the Landscape

    Pan of the Landscape

    02005HD

    Christopher Becks’s Pan of the Landscape uses gorgeous Brakhage-like painting on film to un-Brakhage-like ends: spectacular skies combine with...

    Pan of the Landscape
  • 1983
    action situation

    action situation

    action situation

    01983HD

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

    action situation