Movies: Abstract cinema

A childlike soul runs through their lives, all bound together by the same root trauma....

Abstract study of two couples in the logic of a love breakup...

Flashing images...

A teenager suffering from an identity crisis struggles to escape something that haunts her as she tries to find herself in this morally blurred and empty world....

In this unofficial sequel to "Every Single Minute", the boy finds himself lost in his sleep state....

Boy finds it difficult to relate to his external...

Three images of a person running in the void through the movement of speed and abstract images...

A document of energy forms in states of vibrating transmutation, this audio-visual composition uses LEDs, strobes and torches to create a mechanical "light-score."...

A meditation on the inevitable deterioration of certain traditional values that have been established (or destroyed) throughout civilization. This elegiac account uses symbolic representation from natural elements in order to convey the inevitability...

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to catch the sun with my hands"....

A condensation of a handful of sunsets with various visual moods. Red and blue as opposites that still find a way to cohere. Concrete silhouettes over an ever-changing, expanding canvas. Every movement is collective, molecular. Over an invisible hori...

This experimental short film by Iain Delavan serves as an abstract, yet harrowing expression of his struggles with Post-traumatic stress disorder, due to his repeated childhood sexual abuse. Iain was diagnosed with PTSD in March of 2022, and this fil...

Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project...

The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped through a liquid lens. The illusion of a starry night turns into a sea “roofed over by rainbows.”...

Man is trying to find himself by doing circles around with his skateboard....

Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes....

A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, such a project was beyond technological possibility. His pioneering efforts to combine luminous, expressive painting and the moving picture were furthe...

At the conclusion of the "Trilogy of the Tie" the boy has his last dream in memory of his deceased beloved....

An homage to Len Lye and Jules Engel, Terra Incognita is a hand-drawn animated abstraction in three parts....

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no defined subject, no predetermined objective. Inside and outside. Just angles, textures and flashes of color. A w...