Abstract Movies

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage of abstract images that illustrate the neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan. TAV is located...

Water, fire and oil mix into an anxious premonition read across the surface of an eye, a pond and an expressway. Filmed in Los Angeles, San Francisco...

A mixed media experimental animated film that generates a fragmented view of the world through the partial disclosure of a fantastic event....

A tactile, layered animation in paint improvised in response to Andrew Schultz’s work for bassoon and piano.

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

Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a...

One day, one moment, there the forest has its own time. The place without meridian. The empty place. The place without human. The place has been...

Global in scope but intimate in spirit, Simon Liu's Fallen Arches is a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and...

Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendo-ing in time with Christopher...

In stark contrast to video, "Hand Made" focuses on the grain of the celluloid and the organic nature of emulsion. It was created by contact printing...

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

Joost Rekveld's first film is an hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day and links this to how film is a medium that...

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...

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...

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...

A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....

A subway passenger suffers from hallucinations and sees the metro that he has just boarded accelerate and gain speed quickly.