Movies: Abstract

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

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...

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to classical music by the likes of Bach, Saint-Saëns, and Shoshtakovich, and replete with rapidly mutat...

An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way....

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

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An abstract horror artefact conceptualising trans doubt and dysphoria as a physically invasive force - a virus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewaVwmReGKM...

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as means through which we can interpret something by feeling it on an intuitive level. stripped of thei...

A short, abstract look at the effects of repetition on the human mind....

A short animation about identity....

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

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music....

Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao...

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns. As with an atom, the variety of possibilities from a base movement is potentially infinite....

Flash projection from dutch visual artist Han Hoggerbrugge...

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked separately, preferring to see if the score and visual track would synchronise by chance. Lye also experimented ...

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)....

Silent Breaths Beneath Electric Glow is an evocative exploration of beauty and solitude, set entirely within a neon-lit aquarium. Through mesmerizing visuals of luminous marine life and the soft hum of electric currents, the film captures the quiet p...

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...

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