Movies: Abstract

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

Ki-No-Ko is a surreal five-minute short film published on Art of Silent Hill, Lost Memories: The Art & Music of Silent Hill and The Silent Hill Experience....

THE SCREEN TESTS OF COSMOTROPIA DE XAM A collection of 12 screen tests from all over the world, based on a direction sheet of Cosmotropia de Xam. Starring: Elzabeth Hart of Psychic Ills, How I Quit Crack and Aura, Carmen Incarnadine, Shivabel, Bla...

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....

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé...

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller...

Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home....

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between light and darkness. Entirely composed of superimposed images of Tokyo’s landscape and water sites, the f...

Director River Roest sees Lil' Guys as an exploration of his love for animation, the exhaustion it can cause, and ultimately, the joy it brings. In this groovy short, lots of small elements come to life, moving to the rhythm of the funky soundtrack....

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

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

With a rushing smear, a cyclist begins his race....

How heavy is an emotional relationship in TRANSit? Giving love? Losing love? Having, in my chest, not only a heart but also longing? That's why I record you this: for us to continue....

A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree....

The fourth film in the series, for which I focused on colors and shapes. It was shot on Kodachrome, all edited in camera, and processed at Dwayne’s Photo....

"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...

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no defined subject, no predetermined objective. Inside and outside. Just angles, textures and flashes of color. A w...

袋 Fukuro (Japanese for "bag" or "sack") is a 3-minute short film from 2001. It features Pyramid Head and a Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2, the Fukuro Lady, and many monsters from early sketches for Silent Hill 2. The film contains disturbing, surrea...

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside....