Belladonna of Sadness 1973. Directed by Eiichi Yamamoto, designed by Kuni Fukai, Animation Director Gisaburo Sugii, Produced by Osamu Tezuka’s Mushi Pro studio. Theme song by Mayumi Tachibana.
Andrzej Pawłowski’s 1957 experimental film Kineformy (Cineforms) consisted of projecting moving abstract models onto a screen using a special image-distorting lens. Pawlowski devised a light machine with two crank-like handles to move the models and the lenses. The light, passing through the lenses, distorted the forms, resulting in a series of very complex images—wispy smoke, diaphanous curtains, passing ghosts and then suddenly solid organic forms. This light performance was then filmed.