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The animation, music, and optical printing of Kitsch in Synch was produced by Beckett and the students in two classes he was teaching at CalArts....

An instructional video that teaches, through stop-motion animation, how to build a bridge over a gorge that can hold heavy military equipment. ...

Animated short film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Directed, assembled by Hy Hirsch.

A children's fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and ultimately the test of a mother's love. Preserved by the Academy Film...

The fourth film by a member of the '2nd generation' of computer filmmakers, artists who do their own programming. Abstract imagery includes some hand...

A symbolic reflection on issues of female sexuality, art and identity constructs.

NO NO NOOKY TV posits sexuality to be a social construct in a "sex-text" of satiric graphic representation of "dirty pictures." Made on an Amiga...

A deer, disillusioned by the consumerism that defines his life. A lizard, ostracized from society, forever wandering. A chance meeting in the middle...

Mountain Music illustrates what happens when technology gets too advanced too soon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Krumins’ fantasy sets the world of flora and fauna on its ear. At one moment grotesque greenish mushrooms grow, wither and reverse their...