Abstract Movies

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

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...

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...

An expression of time and memories.

Director River Roest sees Lil' Guys as an exploration of his love for animation, the exhaustion it can cause, and ultimately, the joy it brings. In...

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

A young girl's odyssey intertwines with a luminescent guide, casting light on her path through life.

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

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

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....

A tactile, layered animation in paint improvised in response to Andrew Schultz’s work for bassoon and piano.

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

Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the...

Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak...

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

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...

Hand-drawn animation tests, trials and experiments from way back when, with some water color, cut into a sweet. little. diddle. diddy. biddy. beep...

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

THE SCREEN TESTS OF COSMOTROPIA DE XAM A collection of 12 screen tests from all over the world, based on a direction sheet of Cosmotropia de Xam. ...