Prelude

The fourth of the “cinematic songs,” followed by two new works “made by someone closer to passing on, by someone whose sense of life and sense of cinema have become inseparable in a very real way.”

Prelude

A menacing surrealist piece, Prelude introduces a dimension beyond sound where free will is only a myth. A being enslaves a woman who becomes a skeleton of who she used to be.

Prelude

Experimental film by Curtis Opliger. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Prelude

A single shot, improvisational dance film set to Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold: Prelude.

Prelude

A visual accompaniment to a prelude by Shostakovich, made using a borrow Hi8 camera and objects picked up from the street.

Prelude

A staccato of light flashes breaks through the darkness of the night. For a brief moment, the past becomes visible.

Prelude

Prelude

Tortured found footage for a short piano piece of Galina Ustvolskaya.

Prelude

short by Guy Sherwin

Kamata Prelude

A four-part film done in the unique style of each director, Matusbayashi Urara gives a portrayal of a struggling actress named Machiko who lives in Kamata. Machiko is the central axis of the movie as the film comically d

Prelude

Audiovisual installation that unfolds as a sensory architecture in which the subconscious arises.

Purple Prelude

Prelude 17

Double-printed thinnest possible lines and multiple dots of pale color interwoven with sweeps of linear tones in swiftly transversing motion, all deepening from this almost white field of flitting activity to some solidi

Prelude 8

...as removed as possible from any recognition of either exterior scene of interior feedback phenomena. It is, in its ineffability, as close to pure visual music as I can make it, more inspired by The Preludes of Bach or

Prelude to Eden

A highly stylized short film which whimsically illustrates the short sliver of time between the "Big Bang" and the present. The exhilarating visuals and powerful score transcend the spoken word, and show us that element

Prelude 23

Prelude 23 is doubly-printed hand-painted frames causing an effect almost as if wisps of tone were tinting the film intercut with sharp thin lines which "fatten," then, into thick crowded layers of paint, senses of great

Prelude 22

Prelude 22 is a singly-printed hand-painted thick black and gold swatches of color which evolve into forms that are horizontally and vertically sliced, smeared, cut-off until color "runs" sensuously in snake-like shapes,

Prelude 13

Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until there's an evolution of hard-edge autumn leaf patterns which dissipate i

Prelude 18

Singly-printed evolution from a deep blue-blackness of hard-edge twisting and sweeping bars and deep black swirls of dry-cracked and electrically "webbed" blotches, giving way to mixtures of bright blue and deep black sw

Prelude 21

Prelude 21 is most characterized by the double-time of single-frame printing of extremely thick swatches of multiple colors as if in a furiously boiling cauldron.