Movies: Abstract art

An abstract artist promises to deliver twenty five paintings to an art gallery. As he fights for his creative spark and deadlines loom, he feels his world around him crumble away....

The film was produced applying mixed techniques on Super 8 film support....

Mark Rothko, a master of abstract expressionism, created 835 paintings during his five-decade career....

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy soundtrack. Fragmented lines, exploding bass frequencies and flickering....

Colour, form, area - this is the formula of the greatest pioneer of abstract painting. Kandinsky came to art late in life, but his impact through Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) and Bauhaus paved the way for modern art. In 1913, he created one of t...

“Pat Pasloff is a strong artist within a strong tradition…She has transcended some of the angst of Abstract Expressionism, without descending into something that is bland or formulaic or potentially conceptual” – David Cohen Pat Pasloff (1928 – 2011...

Curator Robert Storr takes us through the 2002 MoMA Gerhard Richter retrospective....

The short film tells the story of a frustrated priest when faced with an apparently impartial friend, who was wearing a "social mask"...

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore....

This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal. The movement, initiated by Paul-Émile Borduas, is explained by the artists themselves when narrator Bruce Ruddick drops in at their coo...

This documentary features a kinetic artist who creates vibrant mixed media works that push the boundary between 2D and 3D....

An abstract animated film, using computer and experimental techniques in choreographing quilt motifs and designs to music. A tribute to the unique and long-established art form of patchwork quilting. A film without words....

Shapes projected onto an abstract environment. The movement and scale of the forms in the film is a beautiful equivalent of the dynamics of the soundtrack...

Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project...

An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering consisting of 292 photographs....

An experience of a camera swinging in different gestures facing the optical distortion of the Sun. The last appearance of the smudge....

At the conclusion of the "Trilogy of the Tie" the boy has his last dream in memory of his deceased beloved....

A groundbreaking documentary on the internationally renowned painter, designated by ARTnews Magazine one of the world's top-ten living artists. This documentary was shot over a period of four years, from 1998 through 2002, Agnes Martin's ninetieth ye...

A journey through a composite galaxy of artificial light....

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