Scratch Film Movies
- 1949
Begone Dull Care
Begone Dull Care6.71949HD
In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip. T...
- 1967
Plus Minus
Plus Minus61967HD
A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.
- 1998
The Albatross
The Albatross01998HD
A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel Tayl...
- 1955
Blinkity Blank
Blinkity Blank6.2231955HD
A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the ret...
- 1966
Op Hop/Hop Op
Op Hop/Hop Op6.21966HD
A hand-made, scratched-on film experiment in intermittent animation. The images are a group of twenty-four visuals, all non-representational, which ar...
- 2024
Hummingbird
Hummingbird02024HD
Could film gelatin, a 16mm film camera, 3 lenses and film developing chemistry experimentation act as messengers between the spirit and the physical w...
- 1958
Tal Farlow
Tal Farlow6.21958HD
Lye created a series of scratched images in the 1950s – more regular or geometric than his usual style – to accompany Rock ‘n’ Rye, a track by jazz gu...
- 2013
Consumed
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A parable of fire and grace, hand-scratched on 16mm, frame-by-frame.
- 2003
Cameras Take Five
Cameras Take Five72003HD
The enduring romance of the lines. A visual exploration of Dave Brubeck's jazz classic "Take Five".
- 1998
When you’re asleep
When you’re asleep01998HD
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 scratche...
- 2006
Light Work Mood Disorder
Light Work Mood Disorder02006HD
Film artist Jennifer Reeves and musician Anthony Burr collaborated to make this live film and music performance, which mixes and subverts symbols of s...
- 2024
Is A Thresh Hold
Is A Thresh Hold02024HD
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
Absence of Satan01985HD
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 d...
- 2003
Minuet
Minuet02003HD
An essay in colour harmonics and visual overtones. Conceived and produced as part of the Images Film Festival's Minute Movies.