Movies: Abstract

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 circles that sweep across the frame. Pillars provide wipes and fades, window shutters are hole punch...

Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the tile patterns of Islamic temples, are generated by performing a set of symmetry operations (translatio...

Short experimental animation....

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 short animation about identity....

A film about endless processes. Images reappearing. New sentences being written....

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....

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

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

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore....