Abstract Movies

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

The second film in the Phosphenes series.

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

Exhausted hands struggling to reach the finish line.

Designed for continuous single or multiple monitor display (as well as video projection), the tape is a collection of computer animated sequences of...

Silent Breaths Beneath Electric Glow is an evocative exploration of beauty and solitude, set entirely within a neon-lit aquarium. Through mesmerizing...

Thirty-six layers of water aligned to create a perfect circle. 1 of 2

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

An abstract exploration of memory and loss.

A boy dreams about a girl who he is in love with.

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals...

This abstract video art piece was made for the purposes of being a backdrop to a semi-improvisational three person dance piece and live spoken word...

An abstract film on the music 'Unfinished' 8th Symphony, part 1, by Franz Schubert by Oerd van Cuijlenborg

The pantun is about a game I (we) used to play pretending to be the characters in invented fairy tales. This time it was a snail. The images of...

A young filmmaker goes on a surreal journey that blurs reality in order to film the perfect scene.

Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano...

A boy waits in the same street every day with his bags packed. What is he waiting for?