Abstract Movies

  • 2019
    Remote Life Drawings

    Remote Life Drawings

    Remote Life Drawings

    92019HD

    Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage of abstract images that illustrate the neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan. TAV is located...

    Remote Life Drawings
  • 1969
    Quacked Jokes/Early Animations

    Quacked Jokes/Early Animations

    Quacked Jokes/Early Animations

    01969HD

    The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside...

    Quacked Jokes/Early Animations
  • 2000
    Scratch

    Scratch

    Scratch

    02000HD

    In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are...

    Scratch
  • 2001
    Mind Your Own Business

    Mind Your Own Business

    Mind Your Own Business

    02001HD

    Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

    Mind Your Own Business
  • 2019
    Chanting

    Chanting

    Chanting

    02019HD

    Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame.

    Chanting
  • 1984
    Garbage

    Garbage

    Garbage

    01984HD

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

    Garbage
  • 2018
    Fallen Arches

    Fallen Arches

    Fallen Arches

    02018HD

    Global in scope but intimate in spirit, Simon Liu's Fallen Arches is a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and...

    Fallen Arches
  • 2004
    Handmade

    Handmade

    Handmade

    02004HD

    In stark contrast to video, "Hand Made" focuses on the grain of the celluloid and the organic nature of emulsion. It was created by contact printing...

    Handmade
  • 1995
    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    61995HD

    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...

    Unstable Materials
  • 2024
    for us, an essay

    for us, an essay

    for us, an essay

    02024HD

    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
  • 2019
    Mille Regretz, live

    Mille Regretz, live

    Mille Regretz, live

    02019HD

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

    Mille Regretz, live
  • 2019
    Let X Equal X

    Let X Equal X

    Let X Equal X

    02019HD

    A sequence of hand-drawn experiments. Constants: visualist, technology, run time. Independent variables: musician, drawing materials, theme. ...

    Let X Equal X
  • 2012
    Alone with the Moon

    Alone with the Moon

    Alone with the Moon

    02012HD

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

    Alone with the Moon
  • 1993
    #2

    #2

    #2

    61993HD

    Joost Rekveld's first film is an hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day and links this to how film is a medium that...

    #2
  • 1990
    Anyway

    Anyway

    Anyway

    8.51990HD

    Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as...

    Anyway
  • 2020
    Vulcania

    Vulcania

    Vulcania

    02020HD

    Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.

    Vulcania
  • 2021
    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

    02021HD

    Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light...

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts
  • 1986
    Light

    Light

    Light

    01986HD

    First personal experience with a Super-8 camera manually exposing film out of any light source.

    Light
  • 2014
    Poker

    Poker

    Poker

    02014HD

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

    Poker
  • 1974
    Life in the Atom

    Life in the Atom

    Life in the Atom

    01974HD

    Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a...

    Life in the Atom