Abstract Movies

From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life in this experimental visual music film.

Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendo-ing in time with Christopher...

Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a...

A man comes home at night and is attacked by a bottle.

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

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

This short experiments with the flow of oil ink over the surface of the water. Mizue manipulated the ink by blowing with straws or stirring with...

Gogu’s feelings living with his parents for the past 28 years and still being a (fat) jobless filmmaker.

A mixed media experimental animated film that generates a fragmented view of the world through the partial disclosure of a fantastic event....

A swarm of forms, reminiscent of alien spaceships or mechanical bats suspended in space.

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

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

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

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

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...

Sketch Film #3 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2006, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA/Japan) The third film in the series, which starts with a...

A blind man stumbles about in a desert before his seeing stick is caught in a bear trap. Crawling, he manages to find a waiting line composed of the...

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...

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,...