Scratch Film Movies
- 1949
Begone Dull Care
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In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip....
- 1955
Blinkity Blank
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A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the...
- 2024
Hummingbird
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Could film gelatin, a 16mm film camera, 3 lenses and film developing chemistry experimentation act as messengers between the spirit and the physical...
- 1998
The Albatross
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A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel...
- 1981
Tal Farlow
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Lye created a series of scratched images in the 1950s – more regular or geometric than his usual style – to accompany Rock...
- 1966
Op Hop/Hop Op
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A hand-made, scratched-on film experiment in intermittent animation. The images are a group of twenty-four visuals, all non-representational, which...
- 1967
Plus Minus
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A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.
- 1998
When you’re asleep
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This little film, which juxtaposes animated sand and scratching on 16mm film, was made during studies at the Royal College of Art. The starting point...
- 2000
Scratch
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In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are...
- 2013
Consumed
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A parable of fire and grace, hand-scratched on 16mm, frame-by-frame.
- 2003
Cameras Take Five
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The enduring romance of the lines. A visual exploration of Dave Brubeck's jazz classic "Take Five".
- 2006
Light Work Mood Disorder
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Film artist Jennifer Reeves and musician Anthony Burr collaborated to make this live film and music performance, which mixes and subverts symbols of...
- 1970
Is A Thresh Hold
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A 16mm experiment using negatives, hand-scratched film, and the rhythm of manual editing to call upon the experience of moments beyond reality.
- 1985
Absence of Satan
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A beautiful woman screams at something unseen off camera. Paul Newman appears eating salad and soon the famous sequence of Paul Newman closing a car...
- 2003
Minuet
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An essay in colour harmonics and visual overtones. Conceived and produced as part of the Images Film Festival's Minute Movies.