Movies: Abstract

Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project...

A man pays local children to bring him flies. After having cut off their wings and legs, he sticks them on the walls of his apartment. When a prostitute appears at his door, he sees in her the final piece to his work....

Flash projection from dutch visual artist Han Hoggerbrugge...

A Man Walking Backwards and Forwards....

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on static backgrounds to suggest travel and discovery....

Astract stop-motion short film using "lightning doodles" by Tochka....

A subway passenger suffers from hallucinations and sees the metro that he has just boarded accelerate and gain speed quickly....

A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, such a project was beyond technological possibility. His pioneering efforts to combine luminous, expressive painting and the moving picture were furthe...

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns. As with an atom, the variety of possibilities from a base movement is potentially infinite....

A man has a breakdown after losing his job and winning a bar fight....

A teenager is trapped in an anomalous realm with no way out, as if there is no flow of life. Everything goes strangely and incomprehensibly....

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell....

On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of migrant workers who are forced to work here under harsh conditions. He has been estranged for two months f...

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to classical music by the likes of Bach, Saint-Saëns, and Shoshtakovich, and replete with rapidly mutat...

An abstract short film about an alien invasion....

A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street....

Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals and of the celluloid itself have been transformed through the filmmaker’s artistry. The raw material o...

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film...

A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously....

Mindy suspects that her ex is up to no good....