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Marcel Duchamp's spinning spirals and wordplay discs. Seven minutes of optical hypnosis.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 12:54 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:05 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:16 AM UTC
A masked woman in 18th-century dress drifts through moonlit fountains at the Villa d'Este, finally becoming one with the water. Vivaldi plays.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 1:01 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:12 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:22 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 73:CALL NUMBER
A 1930 jazz short built around James P. Johnson's Yamekraw rhapsody, named for a Black community near Savannah. Gershwin's pal, an experimental spin.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 1:14 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:25 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:36 AM UTC
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A surreal, absurdist short that includes excerpts of WWII-era propaganda, which its creator warns contains racist material.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 1:24 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:35 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 3:46 AM UTC
Alla Nazimova's daring art-film version of Oscar Wilde's play, with designs inspired by Aubrey Beardsley.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 1:33 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:43 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 3:54 AM UTC
Experimental, abstract and avant-garde shorts
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 2:45 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:56 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:07 AM UTC
A 21-year-old's first film turns Bronx streets into abstractions, then into kids at play and summer commerce. Jay Leyda's city symphony, 1931.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 2:52 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:03 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:14 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 73:CALL NUMBER
An abstract short film from The Jeremy Kellerman Advice Hour, titled Episode 4 -1988.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 3:05 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:16 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:27 AM UTC
Fernand Leger's 1924 Dada dance of machines, faces and kitchenware in motion.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 3:07 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:17 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:28 AM UTC
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 3:17 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:28 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:39 AM UTC
Jean Painlevé's science film shows an experimental treatment of a hemorrhage in a dog. Early French scientific cinema, graphic by nature.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 3:34 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:45 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:56 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 16:HEARTH
An abstract, surreal remix short from The Jeremy Kellerman Advice Hour, with a December 2nd, 1988 date in its title.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Tomorrow at 3:38 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:48 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:59 AM UTC
Man Ray's 1923 Dadaist film: white specks, shapes and an eggcrate gyrate over black. A dance of objects.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Tomorrow at 3:40 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:51 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 6:02 AM UTC
Experimental, abstract and avant-garde shorts
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Tomorrow at 3:42 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:53 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 6:04 AM UTC
Experimental, abstract and avant-garde shorts
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Tomorrow at 3:51 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:02 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 6:13 AM UTC
A surreal short dressed up as a 1995 lecture on the morality of Jean Valjean at Reardon U.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Tomorrow at 3:59 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:10 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 6:21 AM UTC
Alla Nazimova's 1923 silent Salome, an extravagant, stylized spin on the Oscar Wilde play, with sets and costumes from Natacha Rambova.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Airing Now (2:50 PM UTC) • Tomorrow at 4:01 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:12 PM UTC
Experimental, abstract and avant-garde shorts
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 4:03 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:14 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:24 PM UTC
Experimental, abstract and avant-garde shorts
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 4:12 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:23 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:34 PM UTC
Ruji C. scrambles 1990s home VHS tapes with Beyonce, Eurythmics and The Mountain Goats into a static-laced video mashup.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 4:15 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:26 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:37 PM UTC
James Sibley Watson's 1928 experimental take on Poe's Fall of the House of Usher, told with eerie, wordless imagery rather than dialogue.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 4:21 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:32 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:43 PM UTC
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 4:34 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:45 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:56 PM UTC
A 1930 avant-garde short by Sergei Eisenstein, an experiment in image and music.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 4:38 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:49 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:00 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 71:THE SYLLABUS
The second Basics In Behavior video from Molly The Rabbit, tagged GREEN.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 4:58 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:09 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:20 PM UTC
Hans Richter's 1925 experimental short, an abstract exercise in moving shapes from the German avant-garde.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 5:01 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:12 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:23 PM UTC
A masked man appears in a woman's bedroom and whisks her to the 1956 GM Motorama and Frigidaire's Kitchen of the Future. A musical car dream.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 5:05 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:16 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:27 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 15:HOOFER, 82:SMOKESTACK
Five kittens, born and then raised through their first months of training. A 1946 nature short that is mostly cat.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 5:15 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:26 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:37 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 81:HALL PASS
The first Basics In Behavior video from Molly The Rabbit, tagged GREEN.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 5:37 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:48 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:59 PM UTC
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí's 1929 surrealist shocker, famous for its eyeball-slicing opener. Dream logic, no explanations, still startling.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 5:40 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:51 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:02 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 72:TEASER
Experimental, abstract and avant-garde shorts
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 5:56 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:07 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:17 PM UTC
Oscar Micheaux's 1925 silent drama, with Paul Robeson in a dual role, set among a preacher, a church and a community's trust.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 5:57 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:08 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:18 PM UTC
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 7:29 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:40 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 9:51 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 81:HALL PASS, 85:FAMILY REEL
Ralph Steiner's 1929 tone poem to water in every form: ripples, shadows, texture and shimmer, all cut for pure visual pleasure.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 7:46 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:57 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:08 PM UTC
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 7:57 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 9:08 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:18 PM UTC
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Dimitri Kirsanoff's 1920s French avant-garde Menilmontant, a lyrical silent about Paris working-class life.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 7:58 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 9:09 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:19 PM UTC
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 8:36 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 9:47 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:57 PM UTC
Two men dance to a violinist in an 1895 experiment for Edison's Kinetophone, which paired film with a phonograph. This copy is silent.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 9:45 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:56 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:06 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 70:FLICKER, 73:CALL NUMBER
Experimental, abstract and avant-garde shorts
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 9:48 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:58 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:09 AM UTC
W.K.L. Dickson's 1891 greeting, made on an experimental horizontal-feed Edison camera. One of the very first moving pictures.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 9:57 PM UTC • Today at 10:30 PM UTC • Today at 10:33 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 70:FLICKER, 73:CALL NUMBER
Experimental, abstract and avant-garde shorts
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 9:58 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 11:09 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:20 AM UTC
Experimental, abstract and avant-garde shorts
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 10:31 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 11:42 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:52 AM UTC
Surreal, dada-flavored comedy from The Jeremy Kellerman Advice Hour, an excerpt from the film Surrender to the House. Weird on purpose.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 10:34 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 11:45 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:55 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 100:FRESH CUT
An 1891 Edison-Dickson experimental film of a Newark athlete, made on a horizontal-feed camera. Gymnastics in the lab.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 10:36 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 11:47 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:58 AM UTC
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Evil robots, software engineers and endless meetings in an AI-driven short that started as a music video experiment. The comedy of impossible problems.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 10:37 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 11:48 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:59 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 90:HEPCAT, 100:FRESH CUT
The seventy-sixth work from The Jeremy Kellerman Advice Hour: a short, absurd dada comedy from 2013.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 10:42 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 11:53 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:04 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 100:FRESH CUT
A short community video titled Block Party Tuesday, shot around 2013.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 10:46 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 11:57 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:07 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 100:FRESH CUT, 101:REEL LIFE
A Kannada-language thriller, part one of a short film series, made on a budget of 13,000 rupees and presented with English subtitles.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 10:54 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:05 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:15 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 90:HEPCAT, 100:FRESH CUT
Variations on Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Bunuel and Dali, mixing an anonymous crowd photo from early last century with a sea sunrise. Surrealism.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 11:21 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:31 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:42 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 100:FRESH CUT
An excerpt from Surrender to the House by The Jeremy Kellerman Advice Hour. Surreal dada comedy, daddy's home.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 11:22 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:33 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:44 AM UTC
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The fortieth work from The Jeremy Kellerman Advice Hour, a dada oddity starring a donatellosaurus named Dunky. Created in 2011.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 11:24 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:34 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:45 AM UTC
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A playful remake of Rene Clair's Entr'Acte (1924), with chess players, a hunter and a dancer in the spirit of the original Dada classic.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 11:25 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:36 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:47 AM UTC
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An experimental short mixing ancient languages and AI art, imagining a Last Scribe confronting forbidden voices. Inspired by the maker's own hallucinations.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 11:28 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:39 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:49 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 100:FRESH CUT
A surreal drawing animation by Harry Gohde, made with open-source software like Krita and GIMP. Dreamlike and handmade.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 11:37 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:48 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:59 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 53:KEYFRAME, 54:SQUIGGLE
A tape of a performance night at the club BAKTUN, with projections playing over the crowd. The uploader says a good time was had by all.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 11:38 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:49 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:00 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 101:REEL LIFE, 202:DRIFT
A short by Australian filmmaker E.C. Lewin, from 2024.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 12:10 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:21 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:31 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 100:FRESH CUT, 101:REEL LIFE
The sixty-fourth work from The Jeremy Kellerman Advice Hour: an absurd dada short from 2012 with a very silly title.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 12:43 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:54 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:05 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 100:FRESH CUT
A zombie dragonfly takes the dance floor in David Montgomery's short animation. The title tells you the rest.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 12:44 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:55 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:06 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 52:ONCE UPON, 53:KEYFRAME, 54:SQUIGGLE
A Nepali art-house short about a revolutionary writer who is jailed for his words and keeps writing from his cell.
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CH 75 KALEIDO: Today at 12:50 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:01 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:12 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 100:FRESH CUT