Movies: Abstract

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....

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

A ghost follows its non-existent shadow across a series of windows that gives light but no direction. As the ghost moves, a poem is read that serves as its guide....

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

A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, such a project was beyond technological possibility. His pioneering efforts to combine luminous, expressive painting and the moving picture were furthe...

A colourful "fountain performance"....

This abstract video art piece was made for the purposes of being a backdrop to a semi-improvisational three person dance piece and live spoken word monologue in collaboration with other artists of various fields. Blurring the line between tradition a...

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A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree....

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

A swarm of forms, reminiscent of alien spaceships or mechanical bats suspended in space....

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

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

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....

A blind man stumbles about in a desert before his seeing stick is caught in a bear trap. Crawling, he manages to find a waiting line composed of the blind queuing outside a cinema. Their thoughts are represented by the twelve absurdist sketches that ...

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

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....

Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that awaken the senses....

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack....