Movies: Abstract

A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made contact printer. It was rolled back and re-printed several times over, to create a complex layering of ...

In this silent short film, we follow three stories grappling with grief. As the characters within these stories take action and process their feelings, we see the intertwining nature of these peoples lives....

The second film in the Phosphenes series....

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music...

A Sense Of Place is a short film made with scanned images of transparent Adhesive Sticky Tape. The traces, marks, and imprints left on the tape were scanned and animated into a noisy moving image, overlaying with slow-motion footage from a platform f...

This short experiments with the flow of oil ink over the surface of the water. Mizue manipulated the ink by blowing with straws or stirring with toothpicks and used stop motion animation techniques to shoot the resulting effects....

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa...

This work is a consideration of the vision expressed by "dot"....

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

abstract short...

A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree....

A sequence of hand-drawn experiments. Constants: visualist, technology, run time. Independent variables: musician, drawing materials, theme. Dependent variables: you tell me!...

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

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

Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife, Irena Dodalová)....

Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendo-ing in time with Christopher Doulgeris’ portentously pulsating soundtrack....

The screen is divided again and again until the picture arranged in ever changing strips bursts into whirring dynamic....

An attempt at “total art” performed during the 2020 lockdown....

A tactile, layered animation in paint improvised in response to Andrew Schultz’s work for bassoon and piano....

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