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...

First personal experience with a Super-8 camera manually exposing film out of any light source....

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

A sculptor models a face with boxing gloves....

An ambulance heads towards the "crossroads of the crow's feet" in response to an accident. Unable to find the place, the driver stops at an intersection to ask for directions from a dull-eared local....

"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 unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in every direction. This film is the remake of Barcode, an abstract road-movie about light and shadows....

An abstract adventure exploring the anxiety of a young mans journey leaving home....

Attachment is an experimental, abstract short film about the attachment between the self and other from a marxist perspective, exploring how the right educate thought....

In a desolate world of endless horizons, black-clad figures drift through shifting states of emotion, identity, and self....

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....

A young filmmaker goes on a surreal journey that blurs reality in order to film the perfect scene....

The second film in the Phosphenes series....

Fleshworm Dreams is a trippy, kaleidoscopic visual experience that pairs with an abstract, experimental nature record. Think of it like looking through a constantly shifting kaleidoscope—vibrant colors, strange shapes, and mesmerizing patterns swirli...

A visceral journey through dysphoria in the internet age....

Quiet reflections at the end of the season....

Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in deep time....

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...

An abstract exploration of memory and loss....

“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...