Movies: Abstract

Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes....

Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire....

A hand animated film that is a precursor for Belson’s later work...

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...

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Everyday states of being and decay are observed through the infinite scope of the cosmos and the restorative light which emanates from it, driving cinematic and photographic impulses....

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 ...

Short experimental animation....

Hand-drawn animation tests, trials and experiments from way back when, with some water color, cut into a sweet. little. diddle. diddy. biddy. beep beep. boop boop. video....

Thirty-six layers of water aligned to create a perfect circle. 1 of 2...

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

An abstract exploration of memory and loss....

The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped through a liquid lens. The illusion of a starry night turns into a sea “roofed over by rainbows.”...

A Sense Of Place is a short film made with scanned images of transparent Adhesive Sticky Tape. The traces, marks, and imprints left on the tape were scanned and animated into a noisy moving image, overlaying with slow-motion footage from a platform f...

Gogu’s feelings living with his parents for the past 28 years and still being a (fat) jobless filmmaker....

The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence....

Water, fire and oil mix into an anxious premonition read across the surface of an eye, a pond and an expressway. Filmed in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland. Music by Alex Cobb 16mm color and B&W film by Paul Clipson...

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

From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life in this experimental visual music film....

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