Movies: Abstract

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation....

An attempt to conjure pictorially, from the mind, an image that isn't referential: "...I'd like to give something back, not a picture of a flower, but some flower that couldn't exist except on film." - S.B. "I'm not sure if this work is titled I for...

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...

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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 ...

A found footage collage film sourced from several different places and composed primarily of audio from the films of Jean-Luc Godard....

The function of the wrestler is not to win. It is to go through the motions that are expected of him....

A perfect blending of the art of maths and the maths of art....

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

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

A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall. Then, with the blood of the animal, she draws a heart pierced by an arrow....

In his film #43, Joost Rekveld observes what happens to a system that is destabilised by ‘creative' pixels, drawing inspiration from the set of ideas in biology and mathematics that arose during the development of cybernetics in the 1950s....

Another example of Detheux’s enchanting work, this year deepened by some outstanding live performance experiences....

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Abstract animation by Boris Labbé...

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...

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

First personal experience with a Super-8 camera manually exposing film out of any light source....

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of matter, which shows the bizarre richness of the smallest particles floating in the film emulsion. The c...

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...