Movies: Abstract

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music...

An abstract film on the music 'Unfinished' 8th Symphony, part 1, by Franz Schubert by Oerd van Cuijlenborg...

High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts....

In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light. An expression of a chaotic world. This experimental graduation film is a mixture of different animation techniques...

Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes....

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....

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa...

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...

Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied by the sound of a Shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute), the film is an exercise in the visual perce...

Upset with where his life has gone, Torgo seeks to make some changes...

A colourful "fountain performance"....

Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire....

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

A perfect blending of the art of maths and the maths of art....

Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame....

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside of his sphere of friends, being a collection of early experiments and directions. While lacking the s...

A strong laserbeam is deflected by two mirrors oscillating at very high speeds. The human eye perceives a stable image as long as they move fast enough. White Light / White Heat operates at the threshold of this rate. A constant modulation is introdu...