Movies: Abstract

  • 2024
    A Sense of Nothing

    A Sense of Nothing (2024)

    A Sense of Nothing

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    A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no defined subject, no predetermined objective. Inside and outside. Just angles, textures and flashes of color. A w...

    A Sense of Nothing
  • 1989
    The Blind

    The Blind (1989)

    The Blind

    01989HD

    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
  • 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
  • 2025
    StaticStaticStatic

    StaticStaticStatic (2025)

    StaticStaticStatic

    02025HD

    A symphonic film about neighborhoods and roads....

    StaticStaticStatic
  • 2010
    GARDEN STATIC

    GARDEN STATIC (2010)

    GARDEN STATIC

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    Hand-drawn animation tests, trials and experiments from way back when, with some water color, cut into a sweet. little. diddle. diddy. biddy. beep beep. boop boop. video....

    GARDEN STATIC
  • 2023
    Ancestral Bone

    Ancestral Bone (2023)

    Ancestral Bone

    02023HD

    Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in deep time....

    Ancestral Bone
  • 1999
    Jazzimation

    Jazzimation (1999)

    Jazzimation

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    A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes. An abstract film drawn directly on the computer....

    Jazzimation
  • 2023
    Leda + Swans

    Leda + Swans (2023)

    Leda + Swans

    02023HD

    “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
  • 2020
    Lines

    Lines (2020)

    Lines

    02020HD

    Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music...

    Lines
  • 1969
    Knotte Grosse Loops

    Knotte Grosse Loops (1969)

    Knotte Grosse Loops

    01969HD

    These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent Filmmakers grant to produce Knotte Grosse but it was unfinished at the time of his death. The images allude to...

    Knotte Grosse Loops
  • 2001
    Mind Your Own Business

    Mind Your Own Business (2001)

    Mind Your Own Business

    02001HD

    Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin...

    Mind Your Own Business
  • 2018
    Tetarape

    Tetarape (2018)

    Tetarape

    02018HD

    Abstract animation by Boris Labbé...

    Tetarape
  • 2018
    Into Promenade

    Into Promenade (2018)

    Into Promenade

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    abstract short...

    Into Promenade
  • 2019
    Let X Equal X

    Let X Equal X (2019)

    Let X Equal X

    02019HD

    A sequence of hand-drawn experiments. Constants: visualist, technology, run time. Independent variables: musician, drawing materials, theme. Dependent variables: you tell me!...

    Let X Equal X
  • 2019
    7.6 Billion

    7.6 Billion (2019)

    7.6 Billion

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    A virtual sky awash with a digital aurora....

    7.6 Billion
  • 1974
    Life in the Atom

    Life in the Atom (1974)

    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 man and woman engaged in surreal, erotic contortions. Their bodies are in a constant state of metamor...

    Life in the Atom
  • 2015
    The knot of meridian

    The knot of meridian (2015)

    The knot of meridian

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    One day, one moment, there the forest has its own time. The place without meridian. The empty place. The place without human. The place has been thought as "forest" in our memory. This suspense film of forest was shot in the small forest which gets e...

    The knot of meridian
  • 2014
    Autogenic

    Autogenic (2014)

    Autogenic

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    From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life in this experimental visual music film....

    Autogenic
  • 1963
    K3 - Clear Sky without Clouds

    K3 - Clear Sky without Clouds (1963)

    K3 - Clear Sky without Clouds

    01963HD

    An abstract film, with which Pansini attempted "Malevichean" reduction. It is a blank, an empty film reel with coloristic and toned global changes, nothing more....

    K3 - Clear Sky without Clouds
  • 2007
    Sketch Film #4

    Sketch Film #4 (2007)

    Sketch Film #4

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    The fourth film in the series, for which I focused on colors and shapes. It was shot on Kodachrome, all edited in camera, and processed at Dwayne’s Photo....

    Sketch Film #4