Abstract Movies

A tactile, layered animation in paint improvised in response to Andrew Schultz’s work for bassoon and piano.

An ambulance heads towards the "crossroads of the crow's feet" in response to an accident. Unable to find the place, the driver stops at an...

Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak...

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force.

The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2008.After returning to Japan, I soon began making...

With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged, epilepsy-inducing sound and vision;...

The pantun is about a game I (we) used to play pretending to be the characters in invented fairy tales. This time it was a snail. The images of...

The dream of an undinal being.

Director River Roest sees Lil' Guys as an exploration of his love for animation, the exhaustion it can cause, and ultimately, the joy it brings. In...

An abstract film, with which Pansini attempted "Malevichean" reduction. It is a blank, an empty film reel with coloristic and toned global changes,...

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

An expression of time and memories.

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

An attempt at “total art” performed during the 2020 lockdown.

Rubin chats with two friends.

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler

Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

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

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

An anxiety inducing exploration of juicy colors and crunchy textures driven by chaotic electronic music.