Abstract Movies

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force.

Coping Strategies is a stop-motion animation created from the screen prints of Ellie Honel

Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak...

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...

The Stroke is a hand-drawn animation film that reverses the roles of audio and visuals for a music video. Improvised on its very first viewing, the...

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

A young woman considers her relationship with her father

Another example of Detheux’s enchanting work, this year deepened by some outstanding live performance experiences.

Jane Conger Belson Shimane's first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The...

An anxiety inducing exploration of juicy colors and crunchy textures driven by chaotic electronic music.

The dream of an undinal being.

An abstract film, with which Pansini attempted "Malevichean" reduction. It is a blank, an empty film reel with coloristic and toned global changes,...

An abstract, surreal and experimental anthology consisting of five sequences exploring the themes of identity, the nature of existence and the human...

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

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler

Upset with where his life has gone, Torgo seeks to make some changes

In stark contrast to video, "Hand Made" focuses on the grain of the celluloid and the organic nature of emulsion. It was created by contact printing...

A flickering survey of worlds both urban and botanical. The frame as an unsettled space, a centre that cannot hold, suspended in its own vertigo....

A silent evocation of perception and memory; an attempt to navigate the flotsam of elliptical impressions, earthly phenomena and dreamed images that...

When the world casts an iron tie for you, one that doesn't quite fit or feel right: Is it possible to dream of freedom?