Abstract Movies

  • 2006
    Sketch Film #3

    Sketch Film #3

    Sketch Film #3

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    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...

    Sketch Film #3
  • 1974
    Fuji

    Fuji

    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...

    Fuji
  • 2001
    Mind Your Own Business

    Mind Your Own Business

    Mind Your Own Business

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    Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

    Mind Your Own Business
  • 1984
    Garbage

    Garbage

    Garbage

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

    Garbage
  • 2005
    M・Y・F・A・C・E

    M・Y・F・A・C・E

    M・Y・F・A・C・E

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    Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

    M・Y・F・A・C・E
  • 1982
    Night Mix

    Night Mix

    Night Mix

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    Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense....

    Night Mix
  • 2022
    Woman Is My Last Name

    Woman Is My Last Name

    Woman Is My Last Name

    02022HD

    This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

    Woman Is My Last Name
  • 2023
    I’m Trying To Speak The Language Of My Eyes

    I’m Trying To Speak The Language Of My Eyes

    I’m Trying To Speak The Language Of My Eyes

    02023HD

    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...

    I’m Trying To Speak The Language Of My Eyes
  • 2019
    PUEDO VER TODO MENOS MIS OJOS

    PUEDO VER TODO MENOS MIS OJOS

    PUEDO VER TODO MENOS MIS OJOS

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    PUEDO VER TODO MENOS MIS OJOS
  • 2024
    for us, an essay

    for us, an essay

    for us, an essay

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    How heavy is an emotional relationship in TRANSit? Giving love? Losing love? Having, in my chest, not only a heart but also longing? That's why I...

    for us, an essay
  • 1970
    Elsa

    Elsa

    Elsa

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    Elsa
  • 1972
    Keep on Turning

    Keep on Turning

    Keep on Turning

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    In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

    Keep on Turning
  • 2008
    AANAATT

    AANAATT

    AANAATT

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    "An exciting experiment in the tradition of Oskar Fischinger (Komposition in Blau, 1935), Dwinell Grant (Composition No. 1, 1940) and Slavko...

    AANAATT
  • 1980
    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

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    Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
  • 2020
    Touch

    Touch

    Touch

    02020HD

    What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and...

    Touch
  • 1981
    Unconscious London Strata

    Unconscious London Strata

    Unconscious London Strata

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    This film, photographed in London, is an exploration into the depths of unconscious reactions.

    Unconscious London Strata
  • 2025
    Serlasanha

    Serlasanha

    Serlasanha

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    Serlasanha
  • 2000
    Hell Frozen Over

    Hell Frozen Over

    Hell Frozen Over

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    Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for...

    Hell Frozen Over
  • 2018
    La Señal Cósmica

    La Señal Cósmica

    La Señal Cósmica

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    The film was produced applying mixed techniques on Super 8 film support.

    La Señal Cósmica
  • 1913
    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

    01913HD

    A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, such a project was beyond technological...

    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film