Movies: Abstract

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...

"3D Video SBS (side by side) format. For viewing on 3D monitor or television" -Le Grice...

Director River Roest sees Lil' Guys as an exploration of his love for animation, the exhaustion it can cause, and ultimately, the joy it brings. In this groovy short, lots of small elements come to life, moving to the rhythm of the funky soundtrack....

In this silent short film, we follow three stories grappling with grief. As the characters within these stories take action and process their feelings, we see the intertwining nature of these peoples lives....

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...

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 toothpicks and used stop motion animation techniques to shoot the resulting effects....

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

From the film-almanac on musical works of classics for children "Children's Album". A little film about genesis....

This work is a consideration of the vision expressed by "dot"....

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

The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2008.After returning to Japan, I soon began making the film and completed it in four months.This film is based on a very simple idea: the increasingly ...

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

A sequence of hand-drawn experiments. Constants: visualist, technology, run time. Independent variables: musician, drawing materials, theme. Dependent variables: you tell me!...

A virtual sky awash with a digital aurora....

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

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

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore....

Coping Strategies is a stop-motion animation created from the screen prints of Ellie Honel...

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

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé...