Abstract Filmes

  • 2021
    The Mouth

    The Mouth

    The Mouth

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    The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence.

    The Mouth
  • 2025
    Cygnus A

    Cygnus A

    Cygnus A

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    Abstract experimental film by Ignacio Mardones

    Cygnus A
  • 2002
    Spin

    Spin

    Spin

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    An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

    Spin
  • 1972
    Keep on Turning

    Keep on Turning

    Keep on Turning

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    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
  • 1981
    Unconscious London Strata

    Unconscious London Strata

    Unconscious London Strata

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    This film, photographed in London, is an exploration into the depths of unconscious reactions.

    Unconscious London Strata
  • 1937
    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

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    To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is...

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)
  • 1958
    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals

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    In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using...

    Free Radicals
  • 2023
    The Coronating

    The Coronating

    The Coronating

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    A knight has second thoughts before the coronation of a new king.

    The Coronating
  • 2012
    The Extravagant Shadows

    The Extravagant Shadows

    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...

    The Extravagant Shadows
  • 1980
    Precious Metal

    Precious Metal

    Precious Metal

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    A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.

    Precious Metal
  • 2024
    An Experiment in Image and Form

    An Experiment in Image and Form

    An Experiment in Image and Form

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    Trapped between the frames of time.

    An Experiment in Image and Form
  • 1961
    Drums West

    Drums West

    Drums West

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    This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the...

    Drums West
  • 2012
    PXXXL

    PXXXL

    PXXXL

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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...

    PXXXL
  • 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
  • 2003
    Clandestine

    Clandestine

    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...

    Clandestine
  • 2017
    Rodez

    Rodez

    Rodez

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    An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering...

    Rodez
  • 2022
    MASK

    MASK

    MASK

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    MASK is a short film from Escape the Wolf Productions

    MASK
  • 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
  • 2023
    Pyre

    Pyre

    Pyre

    02023HD

    Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.

    Pyre
  • 1963
    21-87

    21-87

    21-87

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    This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

    21-87