Stephen X. Arthur Movies

Butterflies, totem poles and satellites. Incisive lines and slashes of colour. Images inspired by West Coast Aboriginal art, by nature and by...

A camera speeds across the Trans Canada Highway.

This video is a mini-documentary or news segment made by The Knowledge Network (KNO) interviewing Stephen Arthur on the making of the animated film...

This compilation of short animated films shows the work that led up to the making of Transfigured. These films and interstitials are studies in...

Experimental short film.

Animates the surreal "biomorphs" created by celebrity zoologist Desmond Morris in his paintings. Morris wrote in The Secret Surrealist: "My greatest...

Experimental short film.

Experimental short film.

Portrays a teen identity crisis in the idiom of the modern satiric grotesque, intended to provoke discussion. It deals with discrimination and the...

Experimental short film.

This prototype "sketch" demonstrates sequential morphing cycles from realist to abstract, driven by heartbeats to express the artists' drive to...

Educational film on animation techniques, as told from a Martian telecast by a Martian presenter -- demonstrating ink and paint on cels, stop motion...

The landscape in Vision Point seems to dance with an almost dizzying rhythm against an infinitely receding horizon and our relentless forward...

“It may be important to note that I received a 1978 Canada Council Film Production Grant for an experimental "frame of reference" film,...