Movies: Abstract

An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors....

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

A tactile, layered animation in paint improvised in response to Andrew Schultz’s work for bassoon and piano....

A sequence of hand-drawn experiments. Constants: visualist, technology, run time. Independent variables: musician, drawing materials, theme. Dependent variables: you tell me!...

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa...

Filmed in an empty shop, the remaining features of the space are used to create a kaleidoscopic light film. Ceiling lamps become coloured spheres and circles that sweep across the frame. Pillars provide wipes and fades, window shutters are hole punch...

The weird hand creatures undergo different transformations in synchrony with the music....

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...

Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendo-ing in time with Christopher Doulgeris’ portentously pulsating soundtrack....

In his film #43, Joost Rekveld observes what happens to a system that is destabilised by ‘creative' pixels, drawing inspiration from the set of ideas in biology and mathematics that arose during the development of cybernetics in the 1950s....

"This is taking a Super 8mm camera around with me wherever I go and I'm very interested in windows at this time of travel, and I'm trying to make a variety of different statements about the concept of window." - S.B....

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

A young girl's odyssey intertwines with a luminescent guide, casting light on her path through life....

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé...

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D....

Bizarre abstract stop-motion animation questioning traditional values in a period of great social upheaval....

Abstract short....

The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the artist's insight from experience with drugs and yoga. - The New York Times...

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore....

A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by Caroline and Frank Mouris, preserved in 2020 thanks to a collaborative effort between the Academy Fil...