Abstract Movies

  • 2019
    The Goal Is To Live

    The Goal Is To Live

    The Goal Is To Live

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

    The Goal Is To Live
  • 2023
    The Coronating

    The Coronating

    The Coronating

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    A knight has second thoughts before the coronation of a new king.

    The Coronating
  • 1956
    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

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    Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

    No. 11: Mirror Animations
  • 2021
    Pulvaaliraghu

    Pulvaaliraghu

    Pulvaaliraghu

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    The fan's self-sacrificing blades dance in the air, generating a refreshing breeze that wipes away the sweat of others and brings solace on a...

    Pulvaaliraghu
  • 2001
    Bag

    Bag

    Bag

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    袋 Fukuro (Japanese for "bag" or "sack") is a 3-minute short film from 2001. It features Pyramid Head and a Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2,...

    Bag
  • 2018
    La Señal Cósmica

    La Señal Cósmica

    La Señal Cósmica

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

    La Señal Cósmica
  • 2003
    Clandestine

    Clandestine

    Clandestine

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    A short film released alongside AFI's 2003 album Sing The Sorrow. The four members of AFI search to obtain a mysterious box that bears a resemblance...

    Clandestine
  • 1937
    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

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    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...

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)
  • 2024
    the last day i can no longer remember.

    the last day i can no longer remember.

    the last day i can no longer remember.

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    An abstract, experimental, personal reappraisal of experiences and crises - the project was the result of an experiment.

    the last day i can no longer remember.
  • 1952
    Abstronic

    Abstronic

    Abstronic

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    A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...

    Abstronic
  • 1961
    Shearing Animation

    Shearing Animation

    Shearing Animation

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    An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

    Shearing Animation
  • 1961
    Blazes

    Blazes

    Blazes

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    100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

    Blazes
  • 2024
    Untitled Static

    Untitled Static

    Untitled Static

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    A visceral journey through dysphoria in the internet age.

    Untitled Static
  • 1940
    Tarantella

    Tarantella

    Tarantella

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    Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials...

    Tarantella
  • 2012
    Heart String Marionette

    Heart String Marionette

    Heart String Marionette

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    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...

    Heart String Marionette
  • 1981
    Unconscious London Strata

    Unconscious London Strata

    Unconscious London Strata

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    This film, photographed in London, is an exploration into the depths of unconscious reactions.

    Unconscious London Strata
  • 2023
    Brute

    Brute

    Brute

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    A man has a breakdown after losing his job and winning a bar fight.

    Brute
  • 2023
    Leda + Swans

    Leda + Swans

    Leda + Swans

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    “Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

    Leda + Swans
  • 1969
    Cosmos

    Cosmos

    Cosmos

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    The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the...

    Cosmos
  • 2024
    Mildew

    Mildew

    Mildew

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    'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while...

    Mildew