Movies: Abstract

The Stroke is a hand-drawn animation film that reverses the roles of audio and visuals for a music video. Improvised on its very first viewing, the music for The Stroke was the immediate response of the musicians to the artistic and emotional visual ...

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, co...

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon....

Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame....

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits....

Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that awaken the senses....

Another example of Detheux’s enchanting work, this year deepened by some outstanding live performance experiences....

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as J.M. Wrake) graduation film from The Royal College of Art, 1990...

#23.2 Book of Mirrors deals with the multiplication of light beams through mirrors and kaleidoscopes....

The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2008.After returning to Japan, I soon began making the film and completed it in four months.This film is based on a very simple idea: the increasingly ...

Using century old technology, PXXXL creates digital glitch from analog process. It was animated directly on the celluloid without a camera, in a darkroom, using lights, objects, and handmade lenses. There is no digital manipulation involved-- just l...

Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense. Super-8, silent, color, b&w. Dedicated to Bill Gubbins....

Short experimental animation....

An attempt to conjure pictorially, from the mind, an image that isn't referential: "...I'd like to give something back, not a picture of a flower, but some flower that couldn't exist except on film." - S.B. "I'm not sure if this work is titled I for...

"Momentum is Belson's most serene and gentle film since Allures. This treatment of the sun as an almost dreamlike hallucinatory experience is both surprising and curiously realistic." -Gene Youngblood...

Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in deep time....

Trapped between the frames of time....

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa...

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force....

A computer program named A.D.O.M tries to create a living being that will help to release both of them from their void. This film was created exclusively with stock video and royalty free music. Stock Elements from pixapay.com Music from filmmusi...