UD 99: Moving Image Archive

A collection of film, animation and other experiments in online moving image:

Squarepusher's Come on my Selector and Aphex Twin's, Come to Daddy
By Chris Cunningham
These two music video's by acclaimed filmmaker, Chris Cunningham are charged with the beats of two of electronica's most talented composers: Aphex Twin and Squarepusher.With amazing organic effects, Cunningham takes us into a Japanese insane asylum for children, and into the empty lots where Satan's children are spawned.

Breakdance
By Khoi Uong
Breakdance is an experiment in made-for-Web moving image, using the animation application Flash, by Macromedia. Taking the user through the history and current applications of Breakdancing, Khoi Uong has created an interactive experience, which won a silver award at the One Show Award, and a Gold award at the Art Director's Club.

The Artisan and Good Kid, Bad Kid
by Chris Trudeau
These crudely drawn animations poke fun at a national obsession with…crudely drawn animation. Particularly those with children who spout obscenities.

Advice to Adventurous Girls
By Kim Wood
With a detective's sense of intrigue filmmaker Kim Wood documents the life and death of motorcycle daredevil, Lilly LaFrance. La France was the first woman on two wheels, who daredthe carnival wall of death--blind-folded and arms outstretched! But life's adventures do have their reprocussions…

Safteyman
By Rodney Ascher
This digitally produced animation was originally created for Saturday Night Live. Safteyman never made it to prime time, but it did make it to our site! Ascher's films have been screened in festivals across America, including ResFest Digital Film Festival, Dfilm Digital Film Festival, and the New York Underground Film Festival.

Boiling Point
By Alex Ryan and Henry Astor
This low budget, highly praised short claymation film reveals the horror of chopping, slicing and nearly eating humanly mobile vegetables - unless they chop you first. Created on the foundation of free contribution, Henry Astor surmises that this could possibly be, "the least expensive animation ever made."

The God's of Times Square
By Richard Sandler
Filmmaker Richard Sandler has been documenting the religious fanatics of Times Square for over ten years, and shows some of what he's captured on Urban Desires. Non-believers beware. Our presentation of this film recently won a One Show Award, and a Communication Arts Award.

Grijs
By Christophe Van Rompeay
Belgian filmmaker Christophe Van Rompaey takes a look at the possible psychological repercussions of working within the mundane routine of big business (or the possible repercussions of having an evil opposite.)

Worm and Love Story
By James Paterson
Another experiment using Flash, these animations are imbued with the innocence of child-like art and expression. Eighteen year-old James Paterson is a growing presence on the Web for both his technical experimentation and artistic sensibility.

Footprints and The Film of Her
By Bill Morrison
Theses two short films take a breathtaking view at evolution -of both film and humanity. Bill Morrison has received honors in the London Film Festival and the Chicago Film Festival, among others, and his work is included in the Museum of Modern Art's Permanent collection.

So Many Things to Consider
By Sandye Wilson
UD's first experiment in online motion picture, this short film documents a single woman's introspection on love and men in modern day. So Many Things to Consider was selected for the 1996 34th New York Film Festival and the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.