Abstract Movies

Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home.

In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Adam...

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns....

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

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

An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering...

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon.

Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano...

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

Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense....

The world shifts subtly while silent watchers already understand.

A short, abstract look at the effects of repetition on the human mind.

The weird hand creatures undergo different transformations in synchrony with the music.

An animation that follows a pair of legs in high heels striding forward with unwavering determination.

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in...

An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

A man is horribly tortured by another who wants him to reveal where his girlfriend is hiding.