abstract movies page 13

Flesh Flows (1974)
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Animation

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement] returns...

Divisional Articulations (2017)
5 / 10

Animation

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music...

Rectangle & Rectangles (1984)
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Animation

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker...

Constellations (2006)
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Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre Cantu Ledesma.

PXXXL (2012)
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Using century old technology, PXXXL creates digital glitch from analog process. It was animated directly on the celluloid without a camera, in a...

The World Ends With You (2017)
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Science Fiction, Drama

A depressed man contemplates the imminent end of the world.

Sketch Film #5 (2007)
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Documentary

Sketch Film #5 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2007, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA) This is the last film in the series. I shot at the site of...

Sketch Film #4 (2007)
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Documentary, Animation

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...

Sketch Film #3 (2006)
5 / 10

Animation, Documentary

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...

#23.3 Book of Mirrors (2002)
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#23.2 Book of Mirrors deals with the multiplication of light beams through mirrors and kaleidoscopes.

Light (1986)
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First personal experience with a Super-8 camera manually exposing film out of any light source.

An Abstract Day (2010)
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Animation

Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a...

Roman Numeral: I (1979)
8 / 10

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,...

The Blind (1989)
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Fantasy, Mystery

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...

Physical Sculpture (1989)
5 / 10

Thriller, Horror, Comedy

A sculptor models a face with boxing gloves.

TV Buster (1989)
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Thriller, Comedy, Horror

A couple are watching television together. Over time, the shows become more bizarre: a news report about the arrest of two terrorists reveals they...

The Last Fly (1989)
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Thriller, Horror, Comedy

A man pays local children to bring him flies. After having cut off their wings and legs, he sticks them on the walls of his apartment. When a...

Emergencies (1989)
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Fantasy, Thriller, Comedy

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...

Bottling (1989)
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Thriller, Comedy, Horror

A man comes home at night and is attacked by a bottle.

Evolution of the Red Star (1973)
7 / 10

Animation

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