Abstract Movies

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

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

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

Flash projection from dutch visual artist Han Hoggerbrugge

A teenager is trapped in an anomalous realm with no way out, as if there is no flow of life. Everything goes strangely and incomprehensibly.

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

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker...

Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...

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

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 strong laserbeam is deflected by two mirrors oscillating at very high speeds. The human eye perceives a stable image as long as they move fast...

Abstract short.

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

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is...

The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped...

A boy waits in the same street every day with his bags packed. What is he waiting for?

A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously.