Movies: Abstract
- 1974
Life in the Atom (1974)
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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...
- 1938
Ideas in Search of Light (1938)
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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)....
- 1963
K3 - Clear Sky without Clouds (1963)
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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....
- 2007
Lost Utopia (2007)
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The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words....
- 2007
Sketch Film #5 (2007)
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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 ...
- 1986
Light (1986)
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First personal experience with a Super-8 camera manually exposing film out of any light source....
- 2010
An Abstract Day (2010)
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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...
- 1989
Physical Sculpture (1989)
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A sculptor models a face with boxing gloves....
- 2011
99 Clerkenwell Road (2011)
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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...
- 1968
Momentum (1968)
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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...
- 1959
Odds & Ends (1959)
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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...
- 2013
humming, fast and slow (2013)
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The screen is divided again and again until the picture arranged in ever changing strips bursts into whirring dynamic....
- 1975
Zoopsie (1975)
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Bizarre abstract stop-motion animation questioning traditional values in a period of great social upheaval....
- 2009
Port of Wormy (2009)
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A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue....
- 2001
Mind Your Own Business (2001)
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Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin...
- 2021
Dance Like a Snail (2021)
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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....
- 2014
Poker (2014)
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A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon....
- 2018
Into Promenade (2018)
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abstract short...
- 2019
Mille Regretz, live (2019)
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Another example of Detheux’s enchanting work, this year deepened by some outstanding live performance experiences....
- 2011
8 switches (Part 6) (2011)
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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...