Movies: Abstract

  • 1991
    The Elephant Graveyard

    The Elephant Graveyard (1991)

    The Elephant Graveyard

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    A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more vehicles are waiting to be crushed by powerful reducing machines, their passengers still inside....

    The Elephant Graveyard
  • 2018
    VIVAldi VVinter

    VIVAldi VVinter (2018)

    VIVAldi VVinter

    102018HD

    A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation....

    VIVAldi VVinter
  • 2024
    Cloud Film

    Cloud Film (2024)

    Cloud Film

    02024HD

    cloud film meditates on the calming effects of watching clouds, while also demanding action to combat our impact on the environment. It calls attention to a loss of control as the clouds turn into a storm, reflecting the momentum of climate change. A...

    Cloud Film
  • 2023
    Crepuscus

    Crepuscus (2023)

    Crepuscus

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    At dusk, an observer captures an absurd phenomenon....

    Crepuscus
  • 2013
    Newspaper

    Newspaper (2013)

    Newspaper

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    Abstract animation by Yoshinao Satoh. This is an English version of the film "Papers"....

    Newspaper
  • 2024
    The Confused

    The Confused (2024)

    The Confused

    02024HD

    A teenager is trapped in an anomalous realm with no way out, as if there is no flow of life. Everything goes strangely and incomprehensibly....

    The Confused
  • 2017
    Ramusiana

    Ramusiana (2017)

    Ramusiana

    102017HD

    A description of some parts of the world - explored, visited, documented, imagined. An abstract attempt at finding them again. The title refers to geographer and civil servant of the Republic of Venice Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485-1557)....

    Ramusiana
  • 2025
    All Blurry Around the Open Flame

    All Blurry Around the Open Flame (2025)

    All Blurry Around the Open Flame

    02025HD

    A short film about the abstract processes of light becoming a physical form in the landscape....

    All Blurry Around the Open Flame
  • 2015
    The knot of meridian

    The knot of meridian (2015)

    The knot of meridian

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    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...

    The knot of meridian
  • 2019
    Echo

    Echo (2019)

    Echo

    02019HD

    In this silent short film, we follow three stories grappling with grief. As the characters within these stories take action and process their feelings, we see the intertwining nature of these peoples lives....

    Echo
  • 2024
    Beyond the Moonlight

    Beyond the Moonlight (2024)

    Beyond the Moonlight

    02024HD

    Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project...

    Beyond the Moonlight
  • 1967
    Everything Is a Number

    Everything Is a Number (1967)

    Everything Is a Number

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    Man's rebellion against the world of the digits....

    Everything Is a Number
  • 1969
    Close-Up: an oddyssey

    Close-Up: an oddyssey (1969)

    Close-Up: an oddyssey

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    Aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel in this hallucinogenic space adventure presented entirely through the use of close-up photography....

    Close-Up: an oddyssey
  • 2023
    Pyre

    Pyre (2023)

    Pyre

    02023HD

    Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking....

    Pyre
  • 2024
    What's Beyond a Broken Mirror?

    What's Beyond a Broken Mirror? (2024)

    What's Beyond a Broken Mirror?

    02024HD

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

    What's Beyond a Broken Mirror?
  • 1974
    Fuji

    Fuji (1974)

    Fuji

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    A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone for the film's abstract panoramic survey of an Ozu-e...

    Fuji
  • 1958
    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals (1958)

    Free Radicals

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    In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to arrow heads. The first version of the film won a major award at...

    Free Radicals
  • 2016
    Untitled / Aubrac

    Untitled / Aubrac (2016)

    Untitled / Aubrac

    7.52016HD

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    Untitled / Aubrac
  • 2014
    Blue Movie

    Blue Movie (2014)

    Blue Movie

    02014HD

    C+M, for YK. Subtractive colour blending is used in an attempt to conjure Yves Klein's 'L'accord bleu (RE 10)', 1960. The limitations imposed by media and technology ensure that my perfect pigment never is, and that what is produced is ephemeral, dec...

    Blue Movie
  • 2001
    Flow

    Flow (2001)

    Flow

    02001HD

    Flash projection from dutch visual artist Han Hoggerbrugge...

    Flow