Abstract Movies

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...

A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue.

The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words.

A categorical accumulation of abstract patterns. Lines, colours and sounds obey an impenetrable logic. A quiet film that dares to be resolutely...

Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes.

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...

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement]...

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music...

An abstract audiovisual poem by electronic musician and composer Ralph Lundsten.

An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors.

The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the...

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

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

A teenager is trapped in an anomalous realm with no way out, as if there is no flow of life. Everything goes strangely and incomprehensibly.

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

"Momentum is Belson's most serene and gentle film since Allures. This treatment of the sun as an almost dreamlike hallucinatory experience is both...

Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre Cantu Ledesma.

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,...

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as...

Quiet reflections at the end of the season.