Movies: Abstract

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials (visual and aural) are subject to any conceivable interrelation and modification....

The film was produced applying mixed techniques on Super 8 film support....

cloud film meditates on the calming effects of watching clouds, while also demanding action to combat our impact on the environment. It calls attention to a loss of control as the clouds turn into a storm, reflecting the momentum of climate change. A...

Flash projection from dutch visual artist Han Hoggerbrugge...

Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama in between image and sound as a reaction . It treats the surface of the film itself as a digital artefact th...

"Mouris’s film, YOU’RE NOT REAL PRETTY BUT YOU’RE MINE…, built upon the strongest elements of QUICK DREAM, and added a pop music soundtrack. Mouris says, “I shot another 100 foot roll on classmate Jerry Strawbridge’s home animation stand, and edited ...

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to classical music by the likes of Bach, Saint-Saëns, and Shoshtakovich, and replete with rapidly mutat...

A short film released alongside AFI's 2003 album Sing The Sorrow. The four members of AFI search to obtain a mysterious box that bears a resemblance to the album's artwork. There are two separate soundtracks for the film, one composed by AFI guitaris...

Trapped between the frames of time....

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton....

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music....

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

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

An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors....

After Billy finds a winning scratch ticket, the gas station gets a new lottery machine that becomes the talk of the town. Part of [adult swim] smalls and second Gassy's Gas n Stuff short...

In an alternate universe, the dinosaurs have roared one too many times before the asteroid hits Earth. The consequences that follow could be catastrophic....

Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project...

A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into a never ending nightmare filled with horrible monsters....

Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by One-Dimensional Man by the philosopher Herbert Marcus…...

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National Film Board (where he worked as an animator), combined with his own black and white 16mm footage shot on...