Abstract Movies

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

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force.

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

A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital.

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

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

A man pays local children to bring him flies. After having cut off their wings and legs, he sticks them on the walls of his apartment. When a...

cloud film meditates on the calming effects of watching clouds, while also demanding action to combat our impact on the environment. It calls...

Director River Roest sees Lil' Guys as an exploration of his love for animation, the exhaustion it can cause, and ultimately, the joy it brings. In...

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

The dream of an undinal being.

Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

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

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler

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

The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2008.After returning to Japan, I soon began making...

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

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

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

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...