Movies: Abstract
- 2007
Lost Utopia (2007)
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The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words....
- 1977
D'art moderne (1977)
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- 2016
Orogenesis (2016)
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A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed....
- 1989
The Blind (1989)
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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 ...
- 2024
I Am Here Now (2024)
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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...
- 2011
99 Clerkenwell Road (2011)
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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...
- 1956
No. 11: Mirror Animations (1956)
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Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso....
- 1937
Escape (Synchronomy No. 4) (1937)
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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...
- 2023
Leda + Swans (2023)
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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...
- 1972
Air! (1972)
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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...
- 1982
Night Mix (1982)
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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....
- 2023
Sea of Glass (2023)
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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.”...
- 2001
Bleip: No (2001)
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Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler...
- 2019
Remote Life Drawings (2019)
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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...
- 2019
Finding Vision, Finding Voice (2019)
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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...
- 2018
_ImEdge (2018)
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A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree....
- 2019
Chanting (2019)
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Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame....
- 1969
Yours (1969)
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- 2006
Sketch Film #3 (2006)
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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 ...
- 2016
Trans/Figure/Ground (2016)
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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....