Movies: Abstract

A short film about the abstract processes of light becoming a physical form in the landscape....

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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...

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...

An abstract exploration of memory and loss....

Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home....

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

The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The main circle (character) is slightly pinker than the other grey circles (people) and she thought she was...

At dusk, an observer captures an absurd phenomenon....

“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...

"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....

Short experimental film by Jordan Belson...

This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue...

Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin...

An expression of time and memories....

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...

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...