Scratch Film Movies

In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip....

A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the...

Could film gelatin, a 16mm film camera, 3 lenses and film developing chemistry experimentation act as messengers between the spirit and the physical...

A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.

A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel...

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...

A parable of fire and grace, hand-scratched on 16mm, frame-by-frame.

A hand-made, scratched-on film experiment in intermittent animation. The images are a group of twenty-four visuals, all non-representational, which...

Lye created a series of scratched images in the 1950s – more regular or geometric than his usual style – to accompany Rock...

The enduring romance of the lines. A visual exploration of Dave Brubeck's jazz classic "Take Five".

Film artist Jennifer Reeves and musician Anthony Burr collaborated to make this live film and music performance, which mixes and subverts symbols of...

In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are...

A 16mm experiment using negatives, hand-scratched film, and the rhythm of manual editing to call upon the experience of moments beyond reality.

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...

An essay in colour harmonics and visual overtones. Conceived and produced as part of the Images Film Festival's Minute Movies.