Movies: Abstract

This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue...

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

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as J.M. Wrake) graduation film from The Royal College of Art, 1990...

Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and dark grey. In five episodes, he alternates single events involving ribbon-like figures following intr...

How heavy is an emotional relationship in TRANSit? Giving love? Losing love? Having, in my chest, not only a heart but also longing? That's why I record you this: for us to continue....

A Dream... is an abstract, horror piece that explores the subconscious mind of modern, western man, touching on cultural guilt, self deception, and maintaining individuality in an impersonal world. The work is inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka....

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

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on static backgrounds to suggest travel and discovery....

A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue....

[The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity of the careful animated choreography. - William Moritz...

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon....

Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a couple, who fight, make love and escape the hot and crowded city. It is a simple story in which the visu...

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa...

A nematic painting of sleep....

Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied by the sound of a Shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute), the film is an exercise in the visual perce...

MASK is a short film from Escape the Wolf Productions...

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Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music and geometric digital animation collide in an electronic feedback loop, spawning arrays of divisional ...

Chicago streets....