Abstract Movies

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

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

"This is taking a Super 8mm camera around with me wherever I go and I'm very interested in windows at this time of travel, and I'm trying to make a...

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

A man has a breakdown after losing his job and winning a bar fight.

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between...

A condensation of a handful of sunsets with various visual moods. Red and blue as opposites that still find a way to cohere. Concrete silhouettes...

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

'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while...

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

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

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he...

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and...

A short film about the abstract processes of light becoming a physical form in the landscape.

After Billy finds a winning scratch ticket, the gas station gets a new lottery machine that becomes the talk of the town. Part of [adult swim] smalls...

This film, photographed in London, is an exploration into the depths of unconscious reactions.