Movies: Abstract

The mutating forms of Tensai Banpaku, or “Genius Expo” create a stunning abstract orchestra....

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack....

A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made contact printer. It was rolled back and re-printed several times over, to create a complex layering of ...

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

Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has become obsolete by the digital dematerialization. A commentary on the fragility of culture....

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious symbols) converging towards the centre of the screen....

Abstract experimental film by Ignacio Mardones...

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

The second film in the Phosphenes series....

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Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in deep time....

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler...

A Sense Of Place is a short film made with scanned images of transparent Adhesive Sticky Tape. The traces, marks, and imprints left on the tape were scanned and animated into a noisy moving image, overlaying with slow-motion footage from a platform f...

In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are scratched directly on 35 mm film....

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

From the film-almanac on musical works of classics for children "Children's Album". A little film about genesis....

Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied by the sound of a Shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute), the film is an exercise in the visual perce...

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon....

An abstract journey through the unconscious in transition of a protagonist stretched out on the asphalt, on a Sunday...

Upset with where his life has gone, Torgo seeks to make some changes...