Abstract Movies

A colourful "fountain performance".

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

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...

"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she...

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside...

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation...

A nematic painting of sleep.

Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a...

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

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

Trapped between the frames of time.

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

Chicago streets.

An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

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

Designed for continuous single or multiple monitor display (as well as video projection), the tape is a collection of computer animated sequences of...

Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has become obsolete by the digital dematerialization....