David Ehrlich
Animated Self-Portraits (1989)
An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation. (more)
An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation. (more)
Academy Leader Variations (1987)
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. (more)
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. (more)
Pencil Test (2013)
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. (more)
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. (more)
Dissipative Dialogues (1982)
Black calligraphic line reveals a series of evanescent encounters between a man and a woman, ending finally in a kiss. (more)
Black calligraphic line reveals a series of evanescent encounters between a man and a woman, ending finally in a kiss. (more)
Precious Metal Variations (1983)
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 (more)
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 (more)
A Child's Dream (1990)
Animating scenes of nature designed by children and underlighting through six layers yields a dreamlike image of a forgotten past. (more)
Animating scenes of nature designed by children and underlighting through six layers yields a dreamlike image of a forgotten past. (more)
Radiant Flux (1999)
There is no mass, but only waves of energy flowing continuously outwards towards our future leaving traces of luminescent color. (more)
There is no mass, but only waves of energy flowing continuously outwards towards our future leaving traces of luminescent color. (more)
Line Dance (2008)
Linear waves of color repeat and overlap in a meditative dance of life (more)
Linear waves of color repeat and overlap in a meditative dance of life (more)
Meditations (2013)
Sensuality intrudes upon abstract meditation until it is at one with it. (more)
Sensuality intrudes upon abstract meditation until it is at one with it. (more)
China Violet (2014)
As he leaves China after five years, Ehrlich created a gentle ode to the Chinese land and its people. (more)
As he leaves China after five years, Ehrlich created a gentle ode to the Chinese land and its people. (more)
Only the Seas Live Forever (2020)
A meditation on life, moving and changing, just like the sea itself. (more)
A meditation on life, moving and changing, just like the sea itself. (more)
Traces elements of nature common to Vermont and Norway. (more)
La Création du monde (2021)
The cycle of life repeats as worlds collide, disintegrate and merge in transcendent peace. (more)
The cycle of life repeats as worlds collide, disintegrate and merge in transcendent peace. (more)
Robot (1977)
The return home of a cubic figure, in contradictory multi-perspective, with the coloring based upon a cyclical twelve-tone spectrum. (more)
The return home of a cubic figure, in contradictory multi-perspective, with the coloring based upon a cyclical twelve-tone spectrum. (more)
Vermont Etude (1977)
Layered tracing paper drawings, inspired by the effect of the mountain mist and by animal tracks softly disappearing in the falling snow. (more)
Layered tracing paper drawings, inspired by the effect of the mountain mist and by animal tracks softly disappearing in the falling snow. (more)
Robot Two (1978)
Vermont Etude, No. 2 (1979)
Inspired by the wildlife of Vermont, the mountains, the rising and setting of the sun, and the flight of bees. (more)
Inspired by the wildlife of Vermont, the mountains, the rising and setting of the sun, and the flight of bees. (more)
Precious Metal (1980)
A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards. (more)
A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards. (more)
Fantasies: Animation of Vermont Schoolchildren (1981)
A collection of vignettes animated by Ehrlich’s young students, with connecting segments by Ehrlich. (more)
A collection of vignettes animated by Ehrlich’s young students, with connecting segments by Ehrlich. (more)
Point (1984)
A pointillist world embraces and integrates the movement of bees, stars and atoms, Kandinsky’s continuum of point to line to plane. (more)
A pointillist world embraces and integrates the movement of bees, stars and atoms, Kandinsky’s continuum of point to line to plane. (more)