Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967) embodied the modernist ideal of the maladaptive artist so well that a balanced evaluation of his work as filmmaker and painter depends on one’s ability to withhold automatic beatification based solely on his biography. Born and educated in Germany, exiled to Los Angeles

Abstract painting, Abstraction, Avant-garde film, Geometric, Polychromatic

Software inventor. Entrepreneur. Musician. Jason likes to make things. Living in Hood River Oregon, which is obviously The Most Beautiful Place In America, Jason's dream is to change the way software is developed.

Contemplative, Experimental, Improvised, Intense, Intimate, Minimal, Pastoral, Polychromatic, Rhythmic, Witty

Trained in philosophy at Harvard under Stanley Cavell before the cinema at AFI, Malick’s slim oeuvre foregrounds this inheritance: each of his four features to date is a period piece of American history; each trains an eye on the natural world (and its relationship with humans and human technologie

Atmospheric, Beautiful , Chance, Citational, Contemplative, Dreamy, Ebullient, Elegant, Event, Feminine, Figurative, Fleeting, Flux, Hypnotic, Illusive, Joyful, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mythic, Open-ended, Perceptual, Playful, Polychromatic, Primal, Quiet, Rhythmic, Self-reflection, Silence, Smart, Sprawling, Sublime, Tragic, Tranquil, Violent, Visceral

A member of the legendary Cahiers quintet, Jacques Rivette was a critic before a filmmaker. Reading his early criticism, though, it’s clear he thought in images from the start, even in words, emphasizing closed complex circuits of mise-en-scene, the better to form meaning. However, he trains one ey

Absurd, Charming, Conceptual, Death, Enigmatic, Event, Excessive, Feminine, Figurative, Functional, Grotesque, Hallucinatory, Layered, Loose, Manic, Paranoid, Playful, Polychromatic, Quirky, Sardonic, Saturated, Self-reflection, Sexy, Spectral, Whimsical