Abstract Movies

  • 2001
    Mind Your Own Business

    Mind Your Own Business

    Mind Your Own Business

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    Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

    Mind Your Own Business
  • 1977
    D'art moderne

    D'art moderne

    D'art moderne

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    D'art moderne
  • 1984
    Garbage

    Garbage

    Garbage

    01984HD

    This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

    Garbage
  • 1969
    Quacked Jokes/Early Animations

    Quacked Jokes/Early Animations

    Quacked Jokes/Early Animations

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    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...

    Quacked Jokes/Early Animations
  • 1938
    Ideas in Search of Light

    Ideas in Search of Light

    Ideas in Search of Light

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    Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife,...

    Ideas in Search of Light
  • 2021
    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

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    Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light...

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts
  • 1975
    Perspectrum

    Perspectrum

    Perspectrum

    01975HD

    In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and re-form to the sound of the koto, a 13-stringed...

    Perspectrum
  • 1974
    Life in the Atom

    Life in the Atom

    Life in the Atom

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    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...

    Life in the Atom
  • 1980
    Aquarelles

    Aquarelles

    Aquarelles

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    Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

    Aquarelles
  • 2025
    Keyhole Conversation

    Keyhole Conversation

    Keyhole Conversation

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    Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation draws the eye down to the small gate of the camera. From there, through quivering and percussive forms of...

    Keyhole Conversation
  • 1969
    Cosmos

    Cosmos

    Cosmos

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

    Cosmos
  • 2016
    Crab Day

    Crab Day

    Crab Day

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    Crab Day is a short film made to accompany Cate Le Bon’s eponymous album, released on April 15, 2016 via Turnstile. Directed by Phil Collins...

    Crab Day
  • 2014
    Blue Movie

    Blue Movie

    Blue Movie

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    C+M, for YK. Subtractive colour blending is used in an attempt to conjure Yves Klein's 'L'accord bleu (RE 10)', 1960. The limitations imposed by...

    Blue Movie
  • 2009
    Port of Wormy

    Port of Wormy

    Port of Wormy

    02009HD

    A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue.

    Port of Wormy
  • 2019
    Remote Life Drawings

    Remote Life Drawings

    Remote Life Drawings

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    Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage of abstract images that illustrate the neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan. TAV is located...

    Remote Life Drawings
  • 2019
    13 Years Later

    13 Years Later

    13 Years Later

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    A perfect blending of the art of maths and the maths of art.

    13 Years Later
  • 1965
    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

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    Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...

    Early Abstractions
  • 2024
    for us, an essay

    for us, an essay

    for us, an essay

    02024HD

    How heavy is an emotional relationship in TRANSit? Giving love? Losing love? Having, in my chest, not only a heart but also longing? That's why I...

    for us, an essay
  • 2008
    AANAATT

    AANAATT

    AANAATT

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    "An exciting experiment in the tradition of Oskar Fischinger (Komposition in Blau, 1935), Dwinell Grant (Composition No. 1, 1940) and Slavko...

    AANAATT
  • 2004
    Handmade

    Handmade

    Handmade

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    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...

    Handmade