Shapes Of Movement

In a joyous tour de force, the world's greatest paintings -- all schools, all periods -- flash by at the rate of eight per second; yet we are able to recognize and retain most.

Animation Workshop Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A hand-drawn animation. Claude is a small and silent boy who carries around a box to which he keeps adding dials, antenna, etc. His parents are extremely rich, throughout the film Calude’s father keeps telling his son: “Claude, you’ll never amount to anything.” Mother several times exasperatedly asks him: “Can’t you do anything, Claude?”. Claude says nothing but, in the end, he has the last act: he twiddles the dials on his completed box and vaporizes both parents.

Prehistoric man thinks ahead of his time.

Newscast on Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin of Martin Luther King.

"A minimal experimental film. A moving painting that demonstrates the principles of fugitive sensations. Not for everyone"

Sardonic riff on the US National Theme and the state of the nation.