Movies: Abstract

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, Irena Dodalová)....

A sculptor models a face with boxing gloves....

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack....

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 circles that sweep across the frame. Pillars provide wipes and fades, window shutters are hole punch...

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, Belson Shimane added a mélange of animation—assemblages, cutouts, color fields, and line drawings—and fau...

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

The second film in the Phosphenes series....

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....

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...

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 multiplied me are out of time with each other, I give up and try dancing....

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 family gathering is sandwiched between superimposed garden scenes and rebellious direct animation. T...

With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged, epilepsy-inducing sound and vision; digital hallucinations drained of colour, synchronized to a soundtrack that is relentless and unsenti...