Movies: Abstract

Deluge is a 2010 post-apocalyptic short film directed by Australian musician Lulu Collard....

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to catch the sun with my hands"....

Designed for continuous single or multiple monitor display (as well as video projection), the tape is a collection of computer animated sequences of celestial images spanning time and cultures, moving objects and images in harmonic choreography and ...

An expression of time and memories....

The Stroke is a hand-drawn animation film that reverses the roles of audio and visuals for a music video. Improvised on its very first viewing, the music for The Stroke was the immediate response of the musicians to the artistic and emotional visual ...

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

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

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns. As with an atom, the variety of possibilities from a base movement is potentially infinite....

A depressed man contemplates the imminent end of the world....

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 Marin Headlands County in California when I was an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the ...

A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital....

The mutating forms of Tensai Banpaku, or “Genius Expo” create a stunning abstract orchestra....

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore....

Attachment is an experimental, abstract short film about the attachment between the self and other from a marxist perspective, exploring how the right educate thought....

Every time we recall a memory, we change it a bit and parts of other memories bleed through....

Students walk into a photography studio to have their photograph taken, and put on a smile for the picture. But as soon as the camera flashes, it reveals their true nature......

A found footage collage film sourced from several different places and composed primarily of audio from the films of Jean-Luc Godard....

A teenager is trapped in an anomalous realm with no way out, as if there is no flow of life. Everything goes strangely and incomprehensibly....

Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in deep time....

A collage hosted by "The Pointless", a dying overlord....