Moon Breath Beat is a 1980 animated experimental student film by Lisze Bechtold about her cats turning into abstract figures.
Her instructor, Jules Engel, asked the class to make a film answering the question, "What happens when an animator follows a line, a patch of color, or a shape into the unconscious?
"[1] Lisze Bechtold later went on to do visual effects on FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) and The Prince and the Pauper (1990).
[4] She also writes children's books including the Buster the Very Shy Dog series[5][6][7] and Toots the Cat.
[8] Moon Breath Beat was selected to the United States National Film Registry in 2014 as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".