Filmmaker Barry Braverman's documentary about his father, Murray.

This is a live projection event for two 16mm projectors and two loudspeakers. The material in Cycles (1972/77) is recycled for two screens and two soundtracks, with one screen set inside another, giving rise to a surprising induced colours and rhythmic patterns.

Under the baton of renowned maestro Vladimir Fedoseyev, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra plays three works by composer Peter Tchaikovsky in this masterful 1991 performance recorded at the famed Alte Oper concert hall in Frankfurt, Germany. Selections include Symphony no. 4 in F Minor, op. 36; the 1812 Overture (in E-flat Major, op. 49); and Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 35. Viktor Tretjakov is the violin soloist.

If you have ever felt stuck on a hamster wheel at work, you will probably be able to relate to these lovable little robots. Watch their repetitive functions spiral out of control in this delightful animated short by Michael Marczewski.

Playful and colorful, Pop Cycle is an experimental short film mixing drawn-on-film animation and live-action sequences. The movie takes inspiration both in synthwave genre and in aesthetics of punk music albums.

Uriel introduces the class and then provides a projection. A student moderator gives an excellent description of an ego deflation and why it's so important to one's progressive evolution. Another student moderator diagrams and explains the abstract concept of how energy flows into us throughout our life cycle.

On your marks. Follow cyclists from 13 countries as they cover 2.400 km of Gaspé countryside in 12 days-a course longer than those of Italy, Belgium or Spain. The long shots of curving landscape and open road are set to a mesmerizing soundtrack in this documentary, and the results are spellbinding.

After being chased by two bullies who destroyed his bike, Ahmad searches for safety and acceptance with the neighborhood thugs who came to his rescue. Soon, their continued protection comes at a price.

An observational exploration of routine, monotony, attention and distraction. Will we continue to let events pass us by uncontested, or will we decide to break the cycle?

This short experimental film explores human interaction with freshwater ecosystems. The filmmaker collected plastic, sand, and moss from the New River and taped them to clear 16mm film leader in homage to Stan Brakhage’s work. The soundtrack is a mix of ambient noises ranging in place of origin from the river's headwaters on Snake Mountain in North Carolina to its mouth in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia.

Concern over global climate change may be at an all-time high, but climate change is nothing new - the earth's climate always followed natural cycles of warming and cooling. In Unstoppable Solar Cycles, Dr. Willie Soon and Dr. David Legates challenge the popular idea that human-generated CO2, is causing catastrophic global warming. These scientists propose an alterantive theory - that the current warming has more to do with solar activity than with human activity.

An award-winning short exploring man-made impacts on New Zealand’s water cycle.

This section of Ecotoons contains clips from BBC's Saturday morning children's programme, Going Live, which hosted an animation competition. The star of the film was to be the famous plasticine character 'Morph' in a green situation. Twelve year old Ruth Dancer won the competition and went down to the Aardman Animation studios in Bristol, to watch Peter Lord make her storyboard into a film: Re-Cycle.

A fungal infection of the mind and soul. In this psychological, horror short, Jake, a young man in his mid-twenties, simultaneously deals with multiple traumatic events. As he navigates these experiences, something has taken root inside of his mind that he may not be able to take control of.

In the summer of 2011, a few film students and bike lovers decided to make a documentary movie. The original idea came from Levi, a Hungarian film student, who went to Madrid for 5 months to study, and after finishing school there, he decided to go back to Budapest on his fixie bike and asked the people of Europe to join him on his way. The journey started in July, at the European Cycle Messenger Championship, Madrid and ended at the gates of Sziget Festival, Budapest in August. Friends from film schools of Budapest, Madrid and London joined the trip to make a road-movie about the challenges and most of all the fun that Levi and the other riders had on the way to Budapest.

A Man finds himself trapped with Civilisation and it's Discontents; taken by the Will to pleasure, and to power, he finds himself swinging wildly between Dionysian elation and desolate Nihilism as he is ground away by the friction between the Instincts and the Superego. He takes an unusual interest in one of his party girl flings, and can't shake her from his thoughts. Her presence stirs up the repressed Anima archetype from his hardened psyche. The influx of feeling she invokes breaks the man down into tears of desperation, he then feels instinctively drawn to the forest. There, in the primordial environment, he glimpses a vision of life which momentarily obliterates his ever-seeking Will and invokes a glimpse of the innate wisdom of the Self. And the rest, is silence!

A classroom biological science documentary from the future which shows what the Spirit and Opportunity landers are filming on the planet Mars RIGHT NOW with their electron microscope-cameras, but not sharing with us. Some monster nudity, simulated stop-motion sex. Animated in claymation (in 1976) by Douglass Smith, aka Rev. Ivan Stang, devotee of Slack master and Sex God J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, who discovered the Conspiracy and an invasion by UFOs, and founded The Church of the SubGenius, an adults-only religion for mutants, misfits, weirdos.

Budd Boetticher talks about the Ranown Cycle, a collection of low-budget westerns of the late 1950s.

David Wilson’s Cal Arts thesis film is structured around a cycle of seasons, but each of its three parts also employs a variety of cinematic cycles. Even a film loop played over and over is not a closed circuit – it gets increasingly dirty and scratched, and will eventual break in the projector. In this way, David’s cycles are gradually developing processes which employ loops and repetition, but only as agents of change and development, like the seasons themselves.