Movies: Abstract

Joost Rekveld's first film is an hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day and links this to how film is a medium that captures and radiates light. Until 2013, this was the only film for which Rekveld also composed the s...

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....

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso....

An abstract, experimental, personal reappraisal of experiences and crises - the project was the result of an experiment....

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...

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

A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall. Then, with the blood of the animal, she draws a heart pierced by an arrow....

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

A symphonic film about neighborhoods and roads....

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....

Abstract experimental film by Ignacio Mardones...

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short film “Photographing a Female Crook” (1904). Leda, who may or may not be a falsely accused young woman, is brought in f...

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music...

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé...

This abstract video art piece was made for the purposes of being a backdrop to a semi-improvisational three person dance piece and live spoken word monologue in collaboration with other artists of various fields. Blurring the line between tradition a...

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...

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

One day, one moment, there the forest has its own time. The place without meridian. The empty place. The place without human. The place has been thought as "forest" in our memory. This suspense film of forest was shot in the small forest which gets e...

Sketch Film #3 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2006, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA/Japan) The third film in the series, which starts with a sequence of paired images: a focused image and a blurred image of the same subject, which was caused by a ...

A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital....