to sense, to animate, to enliven

“Hurray for a formless film, a non-literary, non-musical, picture film that doesn’t tell a story, become an abstract dance, or deliver a message. A film with no escape from the pictures. A film where words are pictures or sound and skip around the way thoughts do. An experience itself like eating, looking, running, like an object, a tree, buildings, drips, and crashes. A film that, instead of making sense, is sense”

—Robert Breer (1962, Film Culture)

Letting etymology lead, this program brings together works of animation as a kind of animating spirit: films that expand beyond the frame and films that sense and are sense. As an archival activation, we ask the films what they’ve been dreaming about in their hibernation and ask an audience to meet and mingle. Various artists, 70 minutes, 16 mm and video.