Movies: Abstract

  • 1923
    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23 (1923)

    Rhythm 23

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    We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures bounce around on the now white background....

    Rhythm 23
  • 1968
    You're Not Real Pretty but You're Mine...

    You're Not Real Pretty but You're Mine... (1968)

    You're Not Real Pretty but You're Mine...

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    "Mouris’s film, YOU’RE NOT REAL PRETTY BUT YOU’RE MINE…, built upon the strongest elements of QUICK DREAM, and added a pop music soundtrack. Mouris says, “I shot another 100 foot roll on classmate Jerry Strawbridge’s home animation stand, and edited ...

    You're Not Real Pretty but You're Mine...
  • 2018
    La Señal Cósmica

    La Señal Cósmica (2018)

    La Señal Cósmica

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    The film was produced applying mixed techniques on Super 8 film support....

    La Señal Cósmica
  • 2024
    Convenience

    Convenience (2024)

    Convenience

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    Mindy suspects that her ex is up to no good....

    Convenience
  • 2019
    Number Two

    Number Two (2019)

    Number Two

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    Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama in between image and sound as a reaction . It treats the surface of the film itself as a digital artefact th...

    Number Two
  • 2021
    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts (2021)

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

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    Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light and shadow that pulsates off the screen into our physical space with blinding intensity. The presence of ligh...

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts
  • 1973
    Evolution of the Red Star

    Evolution of the Red Star (1973)

    Evolution of the Red Star

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    Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master image is formed, this continuously throbbing, pulsating sight is used to ring changes based on years of o...

    Evolution of the Red Star
  • 1974
    Fuji

    Fuji (1974)

    Fuji

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    A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone for the film's abstract panoramic survey of an Ozu-e...

    Fuji
  • 2023
    Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff

    Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff (2023)

    Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff

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    Lulu the dog gets a job at the local convenience store and stays up all night cleaning the back room. Short created for Adult Swim Smalls....

    Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff
  • 2024
    Beyond the Moonlight

    Beyond the Moonlight (2024)

    Beyond the Moonlight

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    Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project...

    Beyond the Moonlight
  • 2025
    Dinosaur Farm

    Dinosaur Farm (2025)

    Dinosaur Farm

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    A political assassination leads to division and chaos....

    Dinosaur Farm
  • 2020
    Submission

    Submission (2020)

    Submission

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    A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force....

    Submission
  • 1980
    Infinity

    Infinity (1980)

    Infinity

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    A cosmic experimental film by Jordan Belson, set to music by Iasos....

    Infinity
  • 2009
    The Artifice

    The Artifice (2009)

    The Artifice

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    An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way....

    The Artifice
  • 2008
    Drux Flux

    Drux Flux (2008)

    Drux Flux

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    Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by One-Dimensional Man by the philosopher Herbert Marcus…...

    Drux Flux
  • 1955
    Calypso

    Calypso (1955)

    Calypso

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    Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music....

    Calypso
  • 2024
    Metamorphic

    Metamorphic (2024)

    Metamorphic

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    She's here. She comes closer. Is she in front of me? Now she, by herself, becomes her....

    Metamorphic
  • 2012
    The Extravagant Shadows

    The Extravagant Shadows (2012)

    The Extravagant Shadows

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    Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching in middair, an air which is Time—not an actual intersection, but with a consequence as powerful as pre...

    The Extravagant Shadows
  • 2025
    My Blood Flows Like Acid

    My Blood Flows Like Acid (2025)

    My Blood Flows Like Acid

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    An abstract, surreal and experimental anthology consisting of five sequences exploring the themes of identity, the nature of existence and the human condition. Part I tells the story of a postapocalyptic world where a Man feeds the ocean his blood in...

    My Blood Flows Like Acid
  • 2003
    Allahu Akbar

    Allahu Akbar (2003)

    Allahu Akbar

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    Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The ...

    Allahu Akbar