Movies: Abstract

  • 2003
    Clandestine

    Clandestine (2003)

    Clandestine

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    A short film released alongside AFI's 2003 album Sing The Sorrow. The four members of AFI search to obtain a mysterious box that bears a resemblance to the album's artwork. There are two separate soundtracks for the film, one composed by AFI guitaris...

    Clandestine
  • 1974
    Fuji

    Fuji (1974)

    Fuji

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    A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone for the film's abstract panoramic survey of an Ozu-e...

    Fuji
  • 1980
    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons (1980)

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

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    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 69, Breer delves into the very basis of animation to explore how a variety of easily recognisable obj...

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
  • 2025
    Dinosaur Farm

    Dinosaur Farm (2025)

    Dinosaur Farm

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    A political assassination leads to division and chaos....

    Dinosaur Farm
  • 2023
    Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff

    Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff (2023)

    Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff

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    Lulu the dog gets a job at the local convenience store and stays up all night cleaning the back room. Short created for Adult Swim Smalls....

    Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff
  • 2012
    Heart String Marionette

    Heart String Marionette (2012)

    Heart String Marionette

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    A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into a never ending nightmare filled with horrible monsters....

    Heart String Marionette
  • 2021
    Thine Own Self

    Thine Own Self (2021)

    Thine Own Self

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    Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation....

    Thine Own Self
  • 1969
    Cosmos

    Cosmos (1969)

    Cosmos

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    The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the artist's insight from experience with drugs and yoga. - The New York Times...

    Cosmos
  • 2017
    #57

    #57 (2017)

    #57

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    A categorical accumulation of abstract patterns. Lines, colours and sounds obey an impenetrable logic. A quiet film that dares to be resolutely experimental. Chaotic equations by the Chinese mathematician Wang Lin are tackled by an analogue computer,...

    #57
  • 2025
    Untitled Static

    Untitled Static (2025)

    Untitled Static

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    A visceral journey through dysphoria in the internet age....

    Untitled Static
  • 2012
    The Extravagant Shadows

    The Extravagant Shadows (2012)

    The Extravagant Shadows

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    Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching in middair, an air which is Time—not an actual intersection, but with a consequence as powerful as pre...

    The Extravagant Shadows
  • 2021
    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts (2021)

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

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    Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light and shadow that pulsates off the screen into our physical space with blinding intensity. The presence of ligh...

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts
  • 2024
    Beyond the Moonlight

    Beyond the Moonlight (2024)

    Beyond the Moonlight

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    Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project...

    Beyond the Moonlight
  • 2012
    La Costante di Archimede

    La Costante di Archimede (2012)

    La Costante di Archimede

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    La Costante di Archimede
  • 2019
    Twilight

    Twilight (2019)

    Twilight

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    An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors....

    Twilight
  • 2021
    everyday star

    everyday star (2021)

    everyday star

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    Everyday states of being and decay are observed through the infinite scope of the cosmos and the restorative light which emanates from it, driving cinematic and photographic impulses....

    everyday star
  • 1957
    Logos

    Logos (1957)

    Logos

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    Jane Conger Belson Shimane's first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The animated film featured an electronic score by Henry Jacobs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 200...

    Logos
  • 2020
    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers (2020)

    Casual Workers

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    An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19...

    Casual Workers
  • 1991
    The Elephant Graveyard

    The Elephant Graveyard (1991)

    The Elephant Graveyard

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    A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more vehicles are waiting to be crushed by powerful reducing machines, their passengers still inside....

    The Elephant Graveyard
  • 1969
    Disabuse

    Disabuse (1969)

    Disabuse

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    Abstract short....

    Disabuse