Abstract Movies

A nematic painting of sleep.

Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre Cantu Ledesma.

The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words.

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement]...

In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light. An expression of a chaotic world. This...

"This is taking a Super 8mm camera around with me wherever I go and I'm very interested in windows at this time of travel, and I'm trying to make a...

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between...

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water,...

The fourth film in the series, for which I focused on colors and shapes. It was shot on Kodachrome, all edited in camera, and processed at...

Thirty-six layers of water aligned to create a perfect circle. 1 of 2

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the...

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.

An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors.

A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously.

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

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore.

"Momentum is Belson's most serene and gentle film since Allures. This treatment of the sun as an almost dreamlike hallucinatory experience is both...

"3D Video SBS (side by side) format. For viewing on 3D monitor or television" -Le Grice