Movies: Abstract

  • 1940
    Tarantella

    Tarantella (1940)

    Tarantella

    5.71940HD

    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....

    Tarantella
  • 2018
    La Señal Cósmica

    La Señal Cósmica (2018)

    La Señal Cósmica

    102018HD

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

    La Señal Cósmica
  • 2024
    Cloud Film

    Cloud Film (2024)

    Cloud Film

    02024HD

    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...

    Cloud Film
  • 2001
    Flow

    Flow (2001)

    Flow

    02001HD

    Flash projection from dutch visual artist Han Hoggerbrugge...

    Flow
  • 2019
    Number Two

    Number Two (2019)

    Number Two

    02019HD

    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...

    Number Two
  • 1968
    You're Not Real Pretty but You're Mine...

    You're Not Real Pretty but You're Mine... (1968)

    You're Not Real Pretty but You're Mine...

    01968HD

    "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 ...

    You're Not Real Pretty but You're Mine...
  • 1952
    Abstronic

    Abstronic (1952)

    Abstronic

    6.61952HD

    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...

    Abstronic
  • 2003
    Clandestine

    Clandestine (2003)

    Clandestine

    02003HD

    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...

    Clandestine
  • 2024
    An Experiment in Image and Form

    An Experiment in Image and Form (2024)

    An Experiment in Image and Form

    02024HD

    Trapped between the frames of time....

    An Experiment in Image and Form
  • 1961
    Shearing Animation

    Shearing Animation (1961)

    Shearing Animation

    6.81961HD

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

    Shearing Animation
  • 1955
    Calypso

    Calypso (1955)

    Calypso

    51955HD

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

    Calypso
  • 2020
    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers (2020)

    Casual Workers

    02020HD

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

    Casual Workers
  • 2024
    Cygnus-X

    Cygnus-X (2024)

    Cygnus-X

    02024HD

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

    Cygnus-X
  • 2019
    Twilight

    Twilight (2019)

    Twilight

    02019HD

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

    Twilight
  • 2024
    Gassy's Gas n Stuff: Lotto

    Gassy's Gas n Stuff: Lotto (2024)

    Gassy's Gas n Stuff: Lotto

    102024HD

    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...

    Gassy's Gas n Stuff: Lotto
  • 2024
    Monosyllabic

    Monosyllabic (2024)

    Monosyllabic

    02024HD

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

    Monosyllabic
  • 2024
    Beyond the Moonlight

    Beyond the Moonlight (2024)

    Beyond the Moonlight

    02024HD

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

    Beyond the Moonlight
  • 2012
    Heart String Marionette

    Heart String Marionette (2012)

    Heart String Marionette

    52012HD

    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....

    Heart String Marionette
  • 2008
    Drux Flux

    Drux Flux (2008)

    Drux Flux

    42008HD

    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…...

    Drux Flux
  • 1963
    21-87

    21-87 (1963)

    21-87

    6.81963HD

    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...

    21-87