Traces elements of nature common to Vermont and Norway.

Short experimental animation by David Ehrlich

The cycle of life repeats as worlds collide, disintegrate and merge in transcendent peace.

From line to surface, melody to harmony, purity to sensuality, from black and white to colour. A recent work from a master of the form.

Hand-drawn and hand-colored on a pixel grid, the film is a meditative evocation of medieval stained glass windows.

A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.

Structural transformations of contemporary wood sprites.

The return home of a cubic figure, in contradictory multi-perspective, with the coloring based upon a cyclical twelve-tone spectrum.

Seeming to move forward in time and space, we exist in perpetual cycles, both creating and being created by our televised environments, which in the end are only reflections of our dreams.

Abstract calligraphic lines evoke meditative rhythms of nature.

Cubic forms emerge and dissolve through morning mists.

An homage to Paul Klee. Color is taken for a walk through its various mixes and transformations.

A pointillist world embraces and integrates the movement of bees, stars and atoms, Kandinsky’s continuum of point to line to plane.

An animated clay-painting in homage to Abstract Expressionism.

Clay animation in process of becoming a painting.

Waves are the layered effects of the evolution of matter and space, the fluctuating surface of the sea, and the ever-extending formations of earth and rock.

A calligraphic ode to the ASIFA logo and various personalities in the International Animation Association.

Dedicated to his father who was a doctor, Ehrlich’s animation is a lyrical meditation on the dynamics and transformations of human and plant biology.

Working the color clay, my mind turned first to the way in which flowers swell and burst into radiant color, and then to mountain landscapes bathed in linear waves of vibrating light.

Layered tracing paper drawings, inspired by the effect of the mountain mist and by animal tracks softly disappearing in the falling snow.

Color contrasts in time have their own radiations, particles dancing on the retina of our memories of Nature.

Inspired by the wildlife of Vermont, the mountains, the rising and setting of the sun, and the flight of bees.

A collection of vignettes animated by Ehrlich’s young students, with connecting segments by Ehrlich.

A meditation, in the blue-green mountains, on age and timelessness.

Animated in an authentic graphic style with period music, the film tells the story of the first hunt of Genghis Khan as a small boy named Temujin. Directed by Miagmar Sodnompilin (Mongolia). Produced for Italtoons by David Ehrlich (USA).

A forest, becoming both less and more as the seasons go by, reaches old age, upright and alone.

In memory of my mother, figures touch, separate, then merge into one another until they separate again.

Schoolchildren animate a series of Olympic events.

Short film produced at a children's animation workshop.

A series of short animations made by children.

Animated short with live-action intro.

Animated short.

Animated short.

Short film animated by children.

Educational film on the insect pest. Created at a children's animation workshop run by David Ehrlich & Wilson Lazaretti.

Animated short.

A series of short animations.

Animated short.

Animated short.

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

Kawamoto's animated self-portrait.

An abstract animation film in which a series of shapes rotate and evolve into other forms producing an illusion of depth. Colour, texture and superimposed images undergo structural variations. - MIFF

Black calligraphic line reveals a series of evanescent encounters between a man and a woman, ending finally in a kiss.

Linear waves of color repeat and overlap in a meditative dance of life

Animating scenes of nature designed by children and underlighting through six layers yields a dreamlike image of a forgotten past.

There is no mass, but only waves of energy flowing continuously outwards towards our future leaving traces of luminescent color.

Sensuality intrudes upon abstract meditation until it is at one with it.

As he leaves China after five years, Ehrlich created a gentle ode to the Chinese land and its people.

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

A meditation on life, moving and changing, just like the sea itself.