Abstract Movies

Gogu’s feelings living with his parents for the past 28 years and still being a (fat) jobless filmmaker.

Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife,...

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...

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon.

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...

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...

The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2008.After returning to Japan, I soon began making...

The function of the wrestler is not to win. It is to go through the motions that are expected of him.

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore.

Coping Strategies is a stop-motion animation created from the screen prints of Ellie Honel

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

Another example of Detheux’s enchanting work, this year deepened by some outstanding live performance experiences.

The fourth film in the series, for which I focused on colors and shapes. It was shot on Kodachrome, all edited in camera, and processed at...

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...

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa

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.

A sequence of hand-drawn experiments. Constants: visualist, technology, run time. Independent variables: musician, drawing materials, theme. ...