David Ehrlich

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Abstract calligraphic lines evoke meditative rhythms of nature.

Clay animation in process of becoming a painting.

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

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

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.

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.

An animated clay-painting in homage to Abstract Expressionism.

Traces elements of nature common to Vermont and Norway.

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

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

Structural transformations of contemporary wood sprites.

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.

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

An individual finds that the world that intrudes upon his personal life cannot be escaped, and he turns to the next generation.

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

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.

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

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

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

Cubic forms emerge and dissolve through morning mists.

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

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