Movies: Abstract

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked separately, preferring to see if the score and visual track would synchronise by chance. Lye also experimented ...

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images....

"3D Video SBS (side by side) format. For viewing on 3D monitor or television" -Le Grice...

The fan's self-sacrificing blades dance in the air, generating a refreshing breeze that wipes away the sweat of others and brings solace on a scorching day....

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa...

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...

Rubin chats with two friends....

Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife, Irena Dodalová)....

Frankie lies. Frankie remembers an unfortunate event from his past and how it spiralled into the state he’s in now, with a little help from an old friend....

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé...

A mixed media experimental animated film that generates a fragmented view of the world through the partial disclosure of a fantastic event. Day-to-day mystical, trivial and important activity is represented using reoccurring symbolic triggers, both v...

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

Abiogenesis within machinery. New life begins and strives - before being cut short....

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence....

A person living in Liberty City goes to work, have some food & gets back home....

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000....

A short film about the abstract processes of light becoming a physical form in the landscape....

An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which is a film projector with optical sound. He affixed his blood onto clear film leader by cutting into the fles...

Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has become obsolete by the digital dematerialization. A commentary on the fragility of culture....

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The ...