Abstract Movies

An attempt at “total art” performed during the 2020 lockdown.

This short experiments with the flow of oil ink over the surface of the water. Mizue manipulated the ink by blowing with straws or stirring with...

Astract stop-motion short film using "lightning doodles" by Tochka.

An abstract journey through the unconscious in transition of a protagonist stretched out on the asphalt, on a Sunday

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.

Global in scope but intimate in spirit, Simon Liu's Fallen Arches is a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and...

With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged, epilepsy-inducing sound and vision;...

An abstract film, with which Pansini attempted "Malevichean" reduction. It is a blank, an empty film reel with coloristic and toned global changes,...

A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.

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...

First personal experience with a Super-8 camera manually exposing film out of any light source.

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...

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...

A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made...

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...

The screen is divided again and again until the picture arranged in ever changing strips bursts into whirring dynamic.

Director River Roest sees Lil' Guys as an exploration of his love for animation, the exhaustion it can cause, and ultimately, the joy it brings. In...