Movies: Abstract

  • 2007
    Lost Utopia

    Lost Utopia (2007)

    Lost Utopia

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    The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words....

    Lost Utopia
  • 1977
    D'art moderne

    D'art moderne (1977)

    D'art moderne

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    D'art moderne
  • 2016
    Orogenesis

    Orogenesis (2016)

    Orogenesis

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    A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed....

    Orogenesis
  • 1989
    The Blind

    The Blind (1989)

    The Blind

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    A blind man stumbles about in a desert before his seeing stick is caught in a bear trap. Crawling, he manages to find a waiting line composed of the blind queuing outside a cinema. Their thoughts are represented by the twelve absurdist sketches that ...

    The Blind
  • 2024
    I Am Here Now

    I Am Here Now (2024)

    I Am Here Now

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    An abstract horror artefact conceptualising trans doubt and dysphoria as a physically invasive force - a virus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewaVwmReGKM...

    I Am Here Now
  • 2011
    99 Clerkenwell Road

    99 Clerkenwell Road (2011)

    99 Clerkenwell Road

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    Filmed in an empty shop, the remaining features of the space are used to create a kaleidoscopic light film. Ceiling lamps become coloured spheres and circles that sweep across the frame. Pillars provide wipes and fades, window shutters are hole punch...

    99 Clerkenwell Road
  • 1956
    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations (1956)

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

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    Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso....

    No. 11: Mirror Animations
  • 1937
    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4) (1937)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

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    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 foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their moveme...

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)
  • 2023
    Leda + Swans

    Leda + Swans (2023)

    Leda + Swans

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    “Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short film “Photographing a Female Crook” (1904). Leda, who may or may not be a falsely accused young woman, is brought in f...

    Leda + Swans
  • 1972
    Air!

    Air! (1972)

    Air!

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    Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water, but that it is becoming scarcer as man-made pollutants crowd it out. This is a film without words in wh...

    Air!
  • 1982
    Night Mix

    Night Mix (1982)

    Night Mix

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    Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense. Super-8, silent, color, b&w. Dedicated to Bill Gubbins....

    Night Mix
  • 2023
    Sea of Glass

    Sea of Glass (2023)

    Sea of Glass

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    The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped through a liquid lens. The illusion of a starry night turns into a sea “roofed over by rainbows.”...

    Sea of Glass
  • 2001
    Bleip: No

    Bleip: No (2001)

    Bleip: No

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    Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler...

    Bleip: No
  • 2019
    Remote Life Drawings

    Remote Life Drawings (2019)

    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 at the centre of four distinct districts that exist in harmony in central Taipei. The film connects th...

    Remote Life Drawings
  • 2019
    Finding Vision, Finding Voice

    Finding Vision, Finding Voice (2019)

    Finding Vision, Finding Voice

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    This abstract video art piece was made for the purposes of being a backdrop to a semi-improvisational three person dance piece and live spoken word monologue in collaboration with other artists of various fields. Blurring the line between tradition a...

    Finding Vision, Finding Voice
  • 2018
    _ImEdge

    _ImEdge (2018)

    _ImEdge

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

    _ImEdge
  • 2019
    Chanting

    Chanting (2019)

    Chanting

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    Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame....

    Chanting
  • 1969
    Yours

    Yours (1969)

    Yours

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    Yours
  • 2006
    Sketch Film #3

    Sketch Film #3 (2006)

    Sketch Film #3

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    Sketch Film #3 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2006, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA/Japan) The third film in the series, which starts with a sequence of paired images: a focused image and a blurred image of the same subject, which was caused by a ...

    Sketch Film #3
  • 2016
    Trans/Figure/Ground

    Trans/Figure/Ground (2016)

    Trans/Figure/Ground

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

    Trans/Figure/Ground