Abstract Movies

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

Abstract short.

A short animation about identity.

In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light. An expression of a chaotic world. This...

Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes.

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

The pantun is about a game I (we) used to play pretending to be the characters in invented fairy tales. This time it was a snail. The images of...

An expression of time and memories.

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

Astract stop-motion short film using "lightning doodles" by Tochka.

The Stroke is a hand-drawn animation film that reverses the roles of audio and visuals for a music video. Improvised on its very first viewing, the...

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

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

A depressed man contemplates the imminent end of the world.

Sketch Film #5 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2007, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA) This is the last film in the series. I shot at the site of...

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

A sculptor models a face with boxing gloves.

Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that...