Movies: Abstract

Deluge is a 2010 post-apocalyptic short film directed by Australian musician Lulu Collard....

An abstract short film that sheds light on the bad habits of the society in which we evolve, but in a dark satiric & cynical way....

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 distancing? We think we touch things, that we can take other people by the hand, but physics tells us quite an...

A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall. Then, with the blood of the animal, she draws a heart pierced by an arrow....

A colourful "fountain performance"....

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"...

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé...

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

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...

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music and geometric digital animation collide in an electronic feedback loop, spawning arrays of divisional ...

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames....

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...

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between light and darkness. Entirely composed of superimposed images of Tokyo’s landscape and water sites, the f...

In the smallest hour, a Crepuscus Tree beckons another unknowing wanderer....

"This is taking a Super 8mm camera around with me wherever I go and I'm very interested in windows at this time of travel, and I'm trying to make a variety of different statements about the concept of window." - S.B....

Animation short by Alina Maliszewska....

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

A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital....

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short film “Photographing a Female Crook” (1904). Leda, who may or may not be a falsely accused young woman, is brought in f...

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