Abstract Movies

  • 2025
    All Blurry Around the Open Flame

    All Blurry Around the Open Flame

    All Blurry Around the Open Flame

    02025HD

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

    All Blurry Around the Open Flame
  • 2018
    A Sense Of Place

    A Sense Of Place

    A Sense Of Place

    02018HD

    A Sense Of Place is a short film made with scanned images of transparent Adhesive Sticky Tape. The traces, marks, and imprints left on the tape were...

    A Sense Of Place
  • 1978
    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

    01978HD

    Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied...

    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)
  • 2018
    Bird Milk

    Bird Milk

    Bird Milk

    02018HD

    An anxiety inducing exploration of juicy colors and crunchy textures driven by chaotic electronic music.

    Bird Milk
  • 1969
    Quacked Jokes/Early Animations

    Quacked Jokes/Early Animations

    Quacked Jokes/Early Animations

    01969HD

    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...

    Quacked Jokes/Early Animations
  • 2006
    Sketch Film #3

    Sketch Film #3

    Sketch Film #3

    52006HD

    Sketch Film #3 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2006, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA/Japan) The third film in the series, which starts with a...

    Sketch Film #3
  • 1989
    Physical Sculpture

    Physical Sculpture

    Physical Sculpture

    51989HD

    A sculptor models a face with boxing gloves.

    Physical Sculpture
  • 2015
    cinéma concret

    cinéma concret

    cinéma concret

    6.52015HD

    Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that...

    cinéma concret
  • 2021
    A Heap of Broken Images

    A Heap of Broken Images

    A Heap of Broken Images

    52021HD

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

    A Heap of Broken Images
  • 1989
    Graffiti

    Graffiti

    Graffiti

    01989HD

    A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....

    Graffiti
  • 1970
    Elsa

    Elsa

    Elsa

    01970HD

    Elsa
  • 2024
    Red Autumn

    Red Autumn

    Red Autumn

    102024HD

    A Experimental Docu-Drama about the Red Army Faction's formation, and events leading up to their imprisonment and death, from 1970 to 1977.

    Red Autumn
  • 2007
    Lost Utopia

    Lost Utopia

    Lost Utopia

    52007HD

    The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words.

    Lost Utopia
  • 2025
    Keyhole Conversation

    Keyhole Conversation

    Keyhole Conversation

    02025HD

    Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation draws the eye down to the small gate of the camera. From there, through quivering and percussive forms of...

    Keyhole Conversation
  • 2016
    Orogenesis

    Orogenesis

    Orogenesis

    02016HD

    A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.

    Orogenesis
  • 2002
    #23.3 Book of Mirrors

    #23.3 Book of Mirrors

    #23.3 Book of Mirrors

    62002HD

    #23.2 Book of Mirrors deals with the multiplication of light beams through mirrors and kaleidoscopes.

    #23.3 Book of Mirrors
  • 1993
    #2

    #2

    #2

    61993HD

    Joost Rekveld's first film is an hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day and links this to how film is a medium that...

    #2
  • 1957
    All Souls Carnival

    All Souls Carnival

    All Souls Carnival

    4.51957HD

    Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

    All Souls Carnival
  • 2024
    Phosphenes II

    Phosphenes II

    Phosphenes II

    02024HD

    The second film in the Phosphenes series.

    Phosphenes II
  • 2024
    Last Days of Summer

    Last Days of Summer

    Last Days of Summer

    02024HD

    Quiet reflections at the end of the season.

    Last Days of Summer