The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D.

All four episodes of Dash Shaw's The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. are available on IFC's website. The animation is fantastic. It manages to stay true to Shaw's style without looking like static drawings conferred with halting movement. I particularly like his use of abstract sequences of color and form, which are reminiscent of early twentieth century abstract film—Walter Ruttmann and Oskar Fischinger, for instance. There's also something of Viking Eggeling's Diagonal Symphony in the progression and formation of shapes (though in The Unclothed Man, these transformations are less articulated and more natural) and of Jeremy Blake's color gradations for Punch-Drunk Love, with certain sequences resembling animated Rothko paintings.