Electric Sheep Introduction Electric Sheep is a distributed computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver. – Wikipedia First created in 1999 by Scott Draves, the Electric Sheep is a form of artificial life, which is to say it is […]
Zeitguised’s abstract, surrealistic, strange, video art
Holy strange eye-candy Batman, what is that? NFW! WTF? It’s Zeitguised again, making magic. Pure, magical, computer generated abstract art. Delicious candy for your eyes. (We originally covered Zeitguised here in 2013.) And wow. It doesn’t get weirder than this. Watch Zeitguised’s mind-altering videos with sound on. It multiplies the effect. Geist.xyz Animated Gif Stills: AN […]
APPETITE
APPETITE is a story about a journey into the belly of the beast. It was originally inspired by a painting by Yagama and her poem “I Am Hungry. The APPETITE teaser video, is a standalone surrealist work of video art and gives a glimpse into the world of the longer 15 minute film. It has been […]
Christie Neptune Surreal Video Art: An Afro-Surrealist Sci-fi Future
Christie Neptune’s “She Fell from Normalcy” Stills Note On Surrealism, Past and Present Followers of contemporary surreal art, and perhaps this blog, may forget that surrealism (and it’s precursor, Dada) were politically inspired art movements. Dada’s “anti-philosophy” developed in reaction to World War I. Surrealism became notorious for many reasons. One of these was affiliating itself with the […]
The last film by Jan Švankmajer: Insects
PRESS RELEASE Legendary filmmaker Jan Švankmajer needs your help to produce his final feature film titled Insects. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-last-film-by-jan-svankmajer-insects–4#/ Campaign story After five long years of preparations, legendary Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer is almost ready to start filming his final feature film titled Insects, a misanthropic and surreal imagery echoing Kafka and the Čapek Brothers. Jan […]
Scales
Stills About Scales Scales is a project born from a dialogue between photographer Nicola Spadafranca and a sound designer Enrico Nicola Cascavilla. Cascavilla interpreted Spadafranca’ photographic project “Squame” making a short moving experimental video art using just the photographs. Cascavilla found a story through the photos that he told just with sound and a cinematic editing […]
Dagner – Surreal Music Video
You see my eyes are open Don’t need ’em blind or folded Follow the thin red line! Music: Dan Freeman And The Serious Director: Michael Fragstein Production Company: Büro Achter April Set Design: Turan Tehrani DoP: Rainer Sprenger Performer: Igor Weiss Grading: Walking On The Moon Buy this track on bandcamp.com: danfreemanandtheserious1.bandcamp.com 8apr.de […]
Unconcealment II
The Unconcealment video series are short films that attempt to capture the moment of artistic inspiration of beings as such. Inspired by Martin Heidegger’s use of the term, the videos are engagements of different subjects ready at hand displaying and unconcealing their self-beings. To capture the seasonal change, Unconcealment II was shot over a period […]
Life’s ballet
A short surreal film with enticing visuals and music. The film plays with visual overlay. More of Joe Zazulak’s Films Additional notes: MUSIC: Created for this film by Jonty Cotton soundcloud.com/jonty-cotton Additional & found footage: beeple-crap.com Das Triadische Ballet Beachfrontbroll.com Xstockvideo.com Girl in fractal image: Charley Gibb
Wave House
Wave House is a short motion graphics video about inner peace. Enjoy! It was a collaboration between Justin Vin, Igor Betenev, Julius Liubertas, Jonas Konstantinavičius, and John Black. Credits: art director & producer: Justin Vin technical director: Igor Betenev animation: Julius Liubertas lights & shading: Jonas Konstantinavičius music & sound design: John Black