Movies: Abstract

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

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as means through which we can interpret something by feeling it on an intuitive level. stripped of thei...

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

An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge....

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....

The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence....

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement] returns to itself and rushes to catch up with its successor.” (Gadassik) Preserved by the Academy Film Archi...

The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped through a liquid lens. The illusion of a starry night turns into a sea “roofed over by rainbows.”...

The strange transformation of a surveillance camera....

Chicago streets....

At dusk, an observer captures an absurd phenomenon....

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to catch the sun with my hands"....

An abstract mood piece that aims to cultivate existential anxiety, exploring the shape and purpose of both man-made and natural objects, while observing how they intersect and overlap....

Upset with where his life has gone, Torgo seeks to make some changes...

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between light and darkness. Entirely composed of superimposed images of Tokyo’s landscape and water sites, the f...

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa...

A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards....

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short film “Photographing a Female Crook” (1904). Leda, who may or may not be a falsely accused young woman, is brought in f...

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000....

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting....