Movies: Abstract

Fleshworm Dreams is a trippy, kaleidoscopic visual experience that pairs with an abstract, experimental nature record. Think of it like looking through a constantly shifting kaleidoscope—vibrant colors, strange shapes, and mesmerizing patterns swirli...

Quiet reflections at the end of the season....

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Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in deep time....

Chicago streets....

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

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

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler...

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...

In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are scratched directly on 35 mm film....

An attempt at “total art” performed during the 2020 lockdown....

Gogu’s feelings living with his parents for the past 28 years and still being a (fat) jobless filmmaker....

Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied by the sound of a Shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute), the film is an exercise in the visual perce...

An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19...

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...

An abstract journey through the unconscious in transition of a protagonist stretched out on the asphalt, on a Sunday...

A tactile, layered animation in paint improvised in response to Andrew Schultz’s work for bassoon and piano....

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

An anxiety inducing exploration of juicy colors and crunchy textures driven by chaotic electronic music....

A virtual sky awash with a digital aurora....