Movies: Abstract

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their moveme...

Short experimental animation....

Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching in middair, an air which is Time—not an actual intersection, but with a consequence as powerful as pre...

Director River Roest sees Lil' Guys as an exploration of his love for animation, the exhaustion it can cause, and ultimately, the joy it brings. In this groovy short, lots of small elements come to life, moving to the rhythm of the funky soundtrack....

A Man Walking Backwards and Forwards....

A collage hosted by "The Pointless", a dying overlord....

After Billy finds a winning scratch ticket, the gas station gets a new lottery machine that becomes the talk of the town. Part of [adult swim] smalls and second Gassy's Gas n Stuff short...

Crab Day is a short film made to accompany Cate Le Bon’s eponymous album, released on April 15, 2016 via Turnstile. Directed by Phil Collins and shot on location in Berlin in the winter of 2015....

A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes. An abstract film drawn directly on the computer....

Abstract animation...

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....

Coping Strategies is a stop-motion animation created from the screen prints of Ellie Honel...

Chicago streets....

Abstract short....

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.”...

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

A boy waits in the same street every day with his bags packed. What is he waiting for?...

An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath....

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"....

An abstract and tense short exploring the inner and outer body via the use of various types of plants....