Movies: Abstract

Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home....

A Sense Of Place is a short film made with scanned images of transparent Adhesive Sticky Tape. The traces, marks, and imprints left on the tape were scanned and animated into a noisy moving image, overlaying with slow-motion footage from a platform f...

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé...

A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by Caroline and Frank Mouris, preserved in 2020 thanks to a collaborative effort between the Academy Fil...

An abstract audiovisual poem by electronic musician and composer Ralph Lundsten....

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 couple, who fight, make love and escape the hot and crowded city. It is a simple story in which the visu...

A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made contact printer. It was rolled back and re-printed several times over, to create a complex layering of ...

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore....

The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The main circle (character) is slightly pinker than the other grey circles (people) and she thought she was...

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[The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity of the careful animated choreography. - William Moritz...

Everyday states of being and decay are observed through the infinite scope of the cosmos and the restorative light which emanates from it, driving cinematic and photographic impulses....

A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed....

A young girl's odyssey intertwines with a luminescent guide, casting light on her path through life....

Bizarre abstract stop-motion animation questioning traditional values in a period of great social upheaval....

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music...

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

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

In his film #43, Joost Rekveld observes what happens to a system that is destabilised by ‘creative' pixels, drawing inspiration from the set of ideas in biology and mathematics that arose during the development of cybernetics in the 1950s....

The screen is divided again and again until the picture arranged in ever changing strips bursts into whirring dynamic....