Movies: Abstract

  • 1974
    Life in the Atom

    Life in the Atom (1974)

    Life in the Atom

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    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 man and woman engaged in surreal, erotic contortions. Their bodies are in a constant state of metamor...

    Life in the Atom
  • 1938
    Ideas in Search of Light

    Ideas in Search of Light (1938)

    Ideas in Search of Light

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    Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife, Irena Dodalová)....

    Ideas in Search of Light
  • 1963
    K3 - Clear Sky without Clouds

    K3 - Clear Sky without Clouds (1963)

    K3 - Clear Sky without Clouds

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    An abstract film, with which Pansini attempted "Malevichean" reduction. It is a blank, an empty film reel with coloristic and toned global changes, nothing more....

    K3 - Clear Sky without Clouds
  • 2007
    Lost Utopia

    Lost Utopia (2007)

    Lost Utopia

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    The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words....

    Lost Utopia
  • 2007
    Sketch Film #5

    Sketch Film #5 (2007)

    Sketch Film #5

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    Sketch Film #5 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2007, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA) This is the last film in the series. I shot at the site of Marin Headlands County in California when I was an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the ...

    Sketch Film #5
  • 1986
    Light

    Light (1986)

    Light

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

    Light
  • 2010
    An Abstract Day

    An Abstract Day (2010)

    An Abstract Day

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    Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a couple, who fight, make love and escape the hot and crowded city. It is a simple story in which the visu...

    An Abstract Day
  • 1989
    Physical Sculpture

    Physical Sculpture (1989)

    Physical Sculpture

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

    Physical Sculpture
  • 2011
    99 Clerkenwell Road

    99 Clerkenwell Road (2011)

    99 Clerkenwell Road

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    Filmed in an empty shop, the remaining features of the space are used to create a kaleidoscopic light film. Ceiling lamps become coloured spheres and circles that sweep across the frame. Pillars provide wipes and fades, window shutters are hole punch...

    99 Clerkenwell Road
  • 1968
    Momentum

    Momentum (1968)

    Momentum

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    "Momentum is Belson's most serene and gentle film since Allures. This treatment of the sun as an almost dreamlike hallucinatory experience is both surprising and curiously realistic." -Gene Youngblood...

    Momentum
  • 1959
    Odds & Ends

    Odds & Ends (1959)

    Odds & Ends

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    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...

    Odds & Ends
  • 2013
    humming, fast and slow

    humming, fast and slow (2013)

    humming, fast and slow

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    The screen is divided again and again until the picture arranged in ever changing strips bursts into whirring dynamic....

    humming, fast and slow
  • 1975
    Zoopsie

    Zoopsie (1975)

    Zoopsie

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    Bizarre abstract stop-motion animation questioning traditional values in a period of great social upheaval....

    Zoopsie
  • 2009
    Port of Wormy

    Port of Wormy (2009)

    Port of Wormy

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    A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue....

    Port of Wormy
  • 2001
    Mind Your Own Business

    Mind Your Own Business (2001)

    Mind Your Own Business

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    Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin...

    Mind Your Own Business
  • 2021
    Dance Like a Snail

    Dance Like a Snail (2021)

    Dance Like a Snail

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    The pantun is about a game I (we) used to play pretending to be the characters in invented fairy tales. This time it was a snail. The images of multiplied me are out of time with each other, I give up and try dancing....

    Dance Like a Snail
  • 2014
    Poker

    Poker (2014)

    Poker

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

    Poker
  • 2018
    Into Promenade

    Into Promenade (2018)

    Into Promenade

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    abstract short...

    Into Promenade
  • 2019
    Mille Regretz, live

    Mille Regretz, live (2019)

    Mille Regretz, live

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

    Mille Regretz, live
  • 2011
    8 switches (Part 6)

    8 switches (Part 6) (2011)

    8 switches (Part 6)

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    With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged, epilepsy-inducing sound and vision; digital hallucinations drained of colour, synchronized to a soundtrack that is relentless and unsenti...

    8 switches (Part 6)