Movies: Abstract

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power....

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no defined subject, no predetermined objective. Inside and outside. Just angles, textures and flashes of color. A w...

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The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as means through which we can interpret something by feeling it on an intuitive level. stripped of thei...

What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and distancing? We think we touch things, that we can take other people by the hand, but physics tells us quite an...

A knight has second thoughts before the coronation of a new king....

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

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short film “Photographing a Female Crook” (1904). Leda, who may or may not be a falsely accused young woman, is brought in f...

A boy dreams about a girl who he is in love with....

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"...

Short film about the inability to sleep, or to remain asleep throughout the night....

Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao...

Short experimental film by Jordan Belson...

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation....

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide against a beautiful symphonic score by George Kleinsinger....

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory position. Used, on one hand, by post-modernist artists as just one more quotable style amongst many, it...

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...

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for the 2000 Walker Art Center exhibition Let's Entertain, this short film employs a range of strategies to approach th...

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force....

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