Abstract Movies

Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

Every time we recall a memory, we change it a bit and parts of other memories bleed through.

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...

Upset with where his life has gone, Torgo seeks to make some changes

Silent Breaths Beneath Electric Glow is an evocative exploration of beauty and solitude, set entirely within a neon-lit aquarium. Through mesmerizing...

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...

A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue.

Rubin chats with two friends.

An expression of time and memories.

A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree.

A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital.

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

Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak...

With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged, epilepsy-inducing sound and vision;...

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler

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

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

An anxiety inducing exploration of juicy colors and crunchy textures driven by chaotic electronic music.

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...

An ambulance heads towards the "crossroads of the crow's feet" in response to an accident. Unable to find the place, the driver stops at an...