SMFA Animation

I was going to write about Norman McLaren but it seems a lot of people already have, so I looked into Len Lye's work more thoroughly. T...

While Norman McLaren's work was utterly tasteful, I feel that Brakhage displayed an elegance rarely seen. One might say McLaren is to M...

Kool Kat Mary Ellen! Being the only female animator on the list of people we could pick to write about, I thought Mary Ellen Bute would be ...

I was completely taken aback by the beauty of Duo Concertantes by Larry Jordan. According to scientific studies performed in Switzerland by...

Len Lye(1901-1980) was a New Zealand born artist dedicated to motion. Len Lye found a way to answer the question of creating a 1:1 relations...

Whitney's interest in spirituality through meditation and music is clear in his 1975 vibrant and hypnotizing animation, "Arabesqu...

William S. Burroughs has been a major inspiration for me for a long time, and I've read his works extensively, as well as books about hi...

Although I enjoy much cameraless animation, I can never really get into Stan Brakhages “Mothlight” (1963). There is no denying that an ung...

It was difficult to find any films of Oskar Fischinger, since the Fischinger Trust seems to have removed most of them. Among the exceptions,...

This truly is an incredible machine. Not to mention, a truly incredible machine for its time as well. Watching this, kind of makes you hav...

Although we didn’t get to it in class, I really enjoyed the film “Jumping”. This was the first Osamu Tezuka film I’d seen (aside from the ...

This film might be the most offensive out of all the “War, Propaganda & Picturing the Other” list of films that we watched in class. R...