Abstract Movies

Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

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 Mar...

THE SCREEN TESTS OF COSMOTROPIA DE XAM A collection of 12 screen tests from all over the world, based on a direction sheet of Cosmotropia de Xam. St...

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide ag...

This short experiments with the flow of oil ink over the surface of the water. Mizue manipulated the ink by blowing with straws or stirring with tooth...

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 multip...

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

An expression of time and memories.

A colourful "fountain performance".

This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa

An abstract journey through the unconscious in transition of a protagonist stretched out on the asphalt, on a Sunday

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

The function of the wrestler is not to win. It is to go through the motions that are expected of him.

Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame.

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

The Stroke is a hand-drawn animation film that reverses the roles of audio and visuals for a music video. Improvised on its very first viewing, the mu...

Upset with where his life has gone, Torgo seeks to make some changes