Movies: Abstract

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell....

In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Adam Nurzyński – produced in cooperation with Tadeusz Kantor the short film Somnambulists. The colourful, painting-like moving image was an attempt at t...

Short experimental film by Jordan Belson...

An ambulance heads towards the "crossroads of the crow's feet" in response to an accident. Unable to find the place, the driver stops at an intersection to ask for directions from a dull-eared local....

A man comes home at night and is attacked by a bottle....

The weird hand creatures undergo different transformations in synchrony with the music....

Flash projection from dutch visual artist Han Hoggerbrugge...

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short...

A man is horribly tortured by another who wants him to reveal where his girlfriend is hiding....

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to arrow heads. The first version of the film won a major award at...

Using century old technology, PXXXL creates digital glitch from analog process. It was animated directly on the celluloid without a camera, in a darkroom, using lights, objects, and handmade lenses. There is no digital manipulation involved-- just l...

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...

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

An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which is a film projector with optical sound. He affixed his blood onto clear film leader by cutting into the fles...

A Experimental Docu-Drama about the Red Army Faction's formation, and events leading up to their imprisonment and death, from 1970 to 1977....

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone for the film's abstract panoramic survey of an Ozu-e...

THE SCREEN TESTS OF COSMOTROPIA DE XAM A collection of 12 screen tests from all over the world, based on a direction sheet of Cosmotropia de Xam. Starring: Elzabeth Hart of Psychic Ills, How I Quit Crack and Aura, Carmen Incarnadine, Shivabel, Bla...

A couple are watching television together. Over time, the shows become more bizarre: a news report about the arrest of two terrorists reveals they have the same faces as the two spectators; in another, a female strips for the man and finally a politi...

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence....

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film...