Movies: Abstract

  • 2007
    Sketch Film #4

    Sketch Film #4 (2007)

    Sketch Film #4

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    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 Dwayne’s Photo....

    Sketch Film #4
  • 2025
    The Art of Cinema 1

    The Art of Cinema 1 (2025)

    The Art of Cinema 1

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    A found footage collage film sourced from several different places and composed primarily of audio from the films of Jean-Luc Godard....

    The Art of Cinema 1
  • 2019
    Guidance

    Guidance (2019)

    Guidance

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

    Guidance
  • 2019
    13 Years Later

    13 Years Later (2019)

    13 Years Later

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    A perfect blending of the art of maths and the maths of art....

    13 Years Later
  • 2002
    #23.3 Book of Mirrors

    #23.3 Book of Mirrors (2002)

    #23.3 Book of Mirrors

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

    #23.3 Book of Mirrors
  • 1979
    Roman Numeral: I

    Roman Numeral: I (1979)

    Roman Numeral: I

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    An attempt to conjure pictorially, from the mind, an image that isn't referential: "...I'd like to give something back, not a picture of a flower, but some flower that couldn't exist except on film." - S.B. "I'm not sure if this work is titled I for...

    Roman Numeral: I
  • 2006
    Color Dream no. 246

    Color Dream no. 246 (2006)

    Color Dream no. 246

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    An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore....

    Color Dream no. 246
  • 2019
    Mille Regretz, live

    Mille Regretz, live (2019)

    Mille Regretz, live

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

    Mille Regretz, live
  • 1969
    Yours

    Yours (1969)

    Yours

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    Yours
  • 2016
    Orogenesis

    Orogenesis (2016)

    Orogenesis

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    A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed....

    Orogenesis
  • 2001
    Bleip: No

    Bleip: No (2001)

    Bleip: No

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    Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler...

    Bleip: No
  • 2018
    Ciciri

    Ciciri (2018)

    Ciciri

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    Abstract animation by Boris Labbé...

    Ciciri
  • 2017
    #57

    #57 (2017)

    #57

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    A categorical accumulation of abstract patterns. Lines, colours and sounds obey an impenetrable logic. A quiet film that dares to be resolutely experimental. Chaotic equations by the Chinese mathematician Wang Lin are tackled by an analogue computer,...

    #57
  • 2020
    The Stroke

    The Stroke (2020)

    The Stroke

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    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 music for The Stroke was the immediate response of the musicians to the artistic and emotional visual ...

    The Stroke
  • 2019
    7.6 Billion

    7.6 Billion (2019)

    7.6 Billion

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    A virtual sky awash with a digital aurora....

    7.6 Billion
  • 1995
    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials (1995)

    Unstable Materials

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    This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of matter, which shows the bizarre richness of the smallest particles floating in the film emulsion. The c...

    Unstable Materials
  • 2013
    #43.6

    #43.6 (2013)

    #43.6

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    In his film #43, Joost Rekveld observes what happens to a system that is destabilised by ‘creative' pixels, drawing inspiration from the set of ideas in biology and mathematics that arose during the development of cybernetics in the 1950s....

    #43.6
  • 2011
    99 Clerkenwell Road

    99 Clerkenwell Road (2011)

    99 Clerkenwell Road

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    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...

    99 Clerkenwell Road
  • 2025
    StaticStaticStatic

    StaticStaticStatic (2025)

    StaticStaticStatic

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    A symphonic film about neighborhoods and roads....

    StaticStaticStatic
  • 2023
    Ancestral Bone

    Ancestral Bone (2023)

    Ancestral Bone

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    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....

    Ancestral Bone