Abstract Movies

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

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

An anxiety inducing exploration of juicy colors and crunchy textures driven by chaotic electronic music.

A virtual sky awash with a digital aurora.

Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife,...

Sketch Film #5 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2007, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA) This is the last film in the series. I shot at the site of...

A sculptor models a face with boxing gloves.

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...

Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory,...

The screen is divided again and again until the picture arranged in ever changing strips bursts into whirring dynamic.

Quiet reflections at the end of the season.

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

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

An attempt at “total art” performed during the 2020 lockdown.

A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue.

Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

The pantun is about a game I (we) used to play pretending to be the characters in invented fairy tales. This time it was a snail. The images of...

abstract short

Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak...

With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged, epilepsy-inducing sound and vision;...