Movies: Abstract
- 1981
Son of the White Mare (1981)
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A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom....
- 1968
Head (1968)
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In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary....
- 1991
The Elephant Graveyard (1991)
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A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more vehicles are waiting to be crushed by powerful reducing machines, their passengers still inside....
- 2017
Tremble All You Want (2017)
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Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming fixation has prevented her from even considering another candidate for boyfriend until an office colleague...
- 1961
Drums West (1961)
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This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstra...
- 2023
Moving On (2023)
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Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home....
- 1989
TV Buster (1989)
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A couple are watching television together. Over time, the shows become more bizarre: a news report about the arrest of two terrorists reveals they have the same faces as the two spectators; in another, a female strips for the man and finally a politi...
- 1989
Metrovision (1989)
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A subway passenger suffers from hallucinations and sees the metro that he has just boarded accelerate and gain speed quickly....
- 2023
Mohammad Saadh (2023)
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An Art and a Short Film in which the director records his childhood experiences and memories through the mischievous activities of a boy named Mohammad Saadh....
- 1962
Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)
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A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Imag...
- 1937
Escape (Synchronomy No. 4) (1937)
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To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their moveme...
- 2016
Crab Day (2016)
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Crab Day is a short film made to accompany Cate Le Bon’s eponymous album, released on April 15, 2016 via Turnstile. Directed by Phil Collins and shot on location in Berlin in the winter of 2015....
- 1958
Somnambulists (1958)
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In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Adam Nurzyński – produced in cooperation with Tadeusz Kantor the short film Somnambulists. The colourful, painting-like moving image was an attempt at t...
- 2024
"Don't Scream Now" (2024)
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"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"...
- 1995
Casa de Lava (1995)
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The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama....
- 2012
Heart String Marionette (2012)
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A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into a never ending nightmare filled with horrible monsters....
- 2024
Cloud Film (2024)
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cloud film meditates on the calming effects of watching clouds, while also demanding action to combat our impact on the environment. It calls attention to a loss of control as the clouds turn into a storm, reflecting the momentum of climate change. A...
- 1923
Rhythm 23 (1923)
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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....
- 1955
Calypso (1955)
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Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music....
- 2024
Magic Conch Shell (2024)
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Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell....