Abstract Movies

Students walk into a photography studio to have their photograph taken, and put on a smile for the picture. But as soon as the camera flashes, it...

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is...

"This is the last film in the series. I shot at the site of Marin Headlands County in California when I was an artist in residence at the Headlands...

Opening with a classic image of Chairman Mao spewing red star tears, this animation is a masterful example of Beckett’s distinctive technique...

A disillusioned young man enjoys the beauty of the last minutes before Tomorrow.

"The fourth film in the series, for which I focused on colors and shapes. It was shot on Kodachrome, all edited in camera, and processed at...

Claire is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of a series of three ink-on-paper artworks created in 2012 by French-Spanish researcher, publisher...

What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and...

Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and...

The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which...

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

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...

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy...

Follows a young girl appreciating her surroundings in her final moments before taking her life.

A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into...

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

"The third film in the series, which starts with a sequence of paired images: a focused image and a blurred image of the same subject, which was...

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

Attachment is an experimental, abstract short film about the attachment between the self and other from a marxist perspective, exploring how the...