Absolute Animation

 “You shouldn’t be looking at this as a continuity. Film frames are hieroglyphs, even when they look like actuality. You should think of the individual film frame, always, as a glyph, and then you’ll understand what cinema is about.” -Harry Smith

That's a great line, I think i understand experimental films a little more now. Especially in the context of animation, it's really impressive what they accomplished back then by working frame by frame with lens-painting and such. I liked Smith's earlier works with the geometric shapes as opposed to the more free form and concrete visualizations of his later work.

In terms of Jordan Belson's work, from what i could find on the internet, it looks super cool. How did he make it? The works that i could find are very soothing, and relaxing in a way. Definitely very spiritual and meditative. Granted, i couldn't find a lot of his work, but a lot of videos i found on youtube were most likely inspired by his films.

Something that was probably influenced by Belson's colorful works was the visualizations of the early windows media player. Something like this: