Abstract Movies

  • 2017
    Anoche

    Anoche

    Anoche

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    Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy...

    Anoche
  • 2005
    M・Y・F・A・C・E

    M・Y・F・A・C・E

    M・Y・F・A・C・E

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    Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

    M・Y・F・A・C・E
  • 2003
    Allahu Akbar

    Allahu Akbar

    Allahu Akbar

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    Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

    Allahu Akbar
  • 2021
    Bird on the 27th Floor

    Bird on the 27th Floor

    Bird on the 27th Floor

    02021HD

    Gogu’s feelings living with his parents for the past 28 years and still being a (fat) jobless filmmaker.

    Bird on the 27th Floor
  • 2015
    Disporting with a Shadow

    Disporting with a Shadow

    Disporting with a Shadow

    62015HD

    Water, fire and oil mix into an anxious premonition read across the surface of an eye, a pond and an expressway. Filmed in Los Angeles, San Francisco...

    Disporting with a Shadow
  • 2002
    Spin

    Spin

    Spin

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    An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

    Spin
  • 2014
    Third Page from the Sun

    Third Page from the Sun

    Third Page from the Sun

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    Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has become obsolete by the digital dematerialization....

    Third Page from the Sun
  • 2024
    for us, an essay

    for us, an essay

    for us, an essay

    02024HD

    How heavy is an emotional relationship in TRANSit? Giving love? Losing love? Having, in my chest, not only a heart but also longing? That's why I...

    for us, an essay
  • 1968
    Momentum

    Momentum

    Momentum

    6.51968HD

    "Momentum is Belson's most serene and gentle film since Allures. This treatment of the sun as an almost dreamlike hallucinatory experience is both...

    Momentum
  • 2023
    I’m Trying To Speak The Language Of My Eyes

    I’m Trying To Speak The Language Of My Eyes

    I’m Trying To Speak The Language Of My Eyes

    02023HD

    The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

    I’m Trying To Speak The Language Of My Eyes
  • 2013
    #43.6

    #43.6

    #43.6

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    In his film #43, Joost Rekveld observes what happens to a system that is destabilised by ‘creative' pixels, drawing inspiration from the set of...

    #43.6
  • 1973
    Evolution of the Red Star

    Evolution of the Red Star

    Evolution of the Red Star

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    Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master...

    Evolution of the Red Star
  • 2024
    INFRASTRATA

    INFRASTRATA

    INFRASTRATA

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    Amongst the contemplative static shots of decaying architecture weaves an abstract narrative unveiling the life-cycle of a higher perception, too...

    INFRASTRATA
  • 1999
    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

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    At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
  • 2023
    Brute

    Brute

    Brute

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    A man has a breakdown after losing his job and winning a bar fight.

    Brute
  • 2012
    Shift

    Shift

    Shift

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    An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or...

    Shift
  • 1972
    Keep on Turning

    Keep on Turning

    Keep on Turning

    01972HD

    In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

    Keep on Turning
  • 2016
    Dimensions

    Dimensions

    Dimensions

    02016HD

    A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns....

    Dimensions
  • 2021
    Pulvaaliraghu

    Pulvaaliraghu

    Pulvaaliraghu

    02021HD

    The fan's self-sacrificing blades dance in the air, generating a refreshing breeze that wipes away the sweat of others and brings solace on a...

    Pulvaaliraghu
  • 1969
    Cosmos

    Cosmos

    Cosmos

    5.71969HD

    The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the...

    Cosmos