Meurtre

Galaxie

1964

The life and power of a distant, red galaxy, which is invaded by an external force, bringing in its wake shadows and destruction.

The Green Planet

1966

An imaginary planet, an abstract universe in continual motion, where minute organisms. half flea half amoeba, the ‘actuphages', live and evolve peacefully.

Around Perception

1968

An early experiment in employing computers to animate film. The result is a dazzling vibration of geometric forms in vivid color, an effect achieved by varying the speed at which alternate colors change, so producing optical illusions. In between these screen pyrotechnics appears a simple line form gyrating in smooth rhythm. Sound effects are created by registering sound shapes directly on the soundtrack of the film.

Nightingales in December

2012

This metaphorical surrealist tale is an allusion. NIGHTINGALES IN DECEMBER is a trip into the memories, and the fields of the current realities. What if the Nightingales were working, instead of singing and going south? Is the innocence the only savior of birdsongs? There are no Nightingales in December... What is left, is only the history of our beginning, and our end.

Scrap Diary

2002

The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.

Fetish Doll

2003

The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.

TRAUMA

2014

TRAUMA is a collaborative film project by Jesse Kanda and Arca first partially exhibited at MoMA PS1 at the end of 2013. The film follows a nonlinear narrative about the death of a salaryman, a drunk driving infant and takes place within a subconscious world. TRAUMA's score will span through Arca's existing and future works.

TENSAI BANPAKU

2014

The mutating forms of Tensai Banpaku, or “Genius Expo” create a stunning abstract orchestra.

Thalé

2012

Barry Doupé’s Thalé (2009) experiments with the phenomenology of light and colour through fiber-optic flower arrangements. Doupé’s animations are inspired by the Thale Cress plant, which is commonly used in biological mutation experiments. His rotating electronic floras, which resemble neon lights, sex toys and fireworks, glow in the dark digital void. - Amy Kazymerchyk, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film

Sounds Good

2019

A boom operator attempts to record the noise mushrooms make in this semi-experimental animation inspired by the world of sounds.

Prelude 14

1996

Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns and grays and shapes most rock-like, all of which is then shot-thru with sufficient yellow to break up all hard-edge form and give a molten aspect to the mixtures of shapes.

GOOD-BY ELVIS and USA

1971

A trippy pop-art collage of phallic objects, naked women and American icons, most notably Elvis Presley.

memoria e imaginación

2013

Dilema I: Burundanga boricua

1990

Combines animation, documentary footage, and hand-painted film as well as slide projections, a painted 12" x 24" backdrop, and sculptural palm tree to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Puerto Rican psyche.

The Adventures of *

1957

Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.