Movies: Visual music

  • 2021
    What the Walls Feel

    What the Walls Feel (2021)

    What the Walls Feel

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    The muted despair and confusion of Rob Ford or something like that....

    What the Walls Feel
  • 1939
    Dance of the Colors

    Dance of the Colors (1939)

    Dance of the Colors

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    A play of colours, shapes and music: colourful dots, lines and surfaces move to the rhythm of the music. A short film by Hans Fischinger, the younger brother of experimental film pioneer Oskar Fischinger....

    Dance of the Colors
  • 1952
    Abstronic

    Abstronic (1952)

    Abstronic

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    A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to classical music by the likes of Bach, Saint-Saëns, and Shoshtakovich, and replete with rapidly mutat...

    Abstronic
  • 1931
    Study No. 9

    Study No. 9 (1931)

    Study No. 9

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    An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger...

    Study No. 9
  • 1935
    Composition in Blue

    Composition in Blue (1935)

    Composition in Blue

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    An abstract film in which every motion of coloured shapes is in strict synchronization with music. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000....

    Composition in Blue
  • 1940
    Tarantella

    Tarantella (1940)

    Tarantella

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    Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials (visual and aural) are subject to any conceivable interrelation and modification....

    Tarantella
  • 1937
    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4) (1937)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

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    To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their moveme...

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)
  • 2023
    at your own pace (film 2 edition)

    at your own pace (film 2 edition) (2023)

    at your own pace (film 2 edition)

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    a short film documenting a day in the life of cl0ud...

    at your own pace (film 2 edition)
  • 2014
    Autogenic

    Autogenic (2014)

    Autogenic

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    From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life in this experimental visual music film....

    Autogenic
  • 2020
    Watine-Eros & Thanatos

    Watine-Eros & Thanatos (2020)

    Watine-Eros & Thanatos

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    A music video directed by experimental director Anna Malina for Catherine Watine's EROS & THANATOS from her 2020 album INTRICATIONS QUANTIQUES....

    Watine-Eros & Thanatos