Abstract Movies

  • 2011
    8 switches (Part 6)

    8 switches (Part 6)

    8 switches (Part 6)

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

    8 switches (Part 6)
  • 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
  • 1961
    Blazes

    Blazes

    Blazes

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    100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

    Blazes
  • 2024
    Magic Conch Shell

    Magic Conch Shell

    Magic Conch Shell

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    Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell.

    Magic Conch Shell
  • 2024

    "Don't Scream Now"

    "Don't Scream Now"

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    "We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"

  • 1963
    21-87

    21-87

    21-87

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    This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

    21-87
  • 2017
    Abstract feat. Alkama

    Abstract feat. Alkama

    Abstract feat. Alkama

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

    Abstract feat. Alkama
  • 1965
    The Last Zero

    The Last Zero

    The Last Zero

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    Animation short by Alina Maliszewska.

    The Last Zero
  • 1989
    Cyclops

    Cyclops

    Cyclops

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    The strange transformation of a surveillance camera.

    Cyclops
  • 2012
    Chase

    Chase

    Chase

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    An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath.

    Chase
  • 1973
    Squares

    Squares

    Squares

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    An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide...

    Squares
  • 1959
    Odds & Ends

    Odds & Ends

    Odds & Ends

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    Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory,...

    Odds & Ends
  • 1959
    High Voltage

    High Voltage

    High Voltage

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    High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.

    High Voltage
  • 1957
    Logos

    Logos

    Logos

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    Jane Conger Belson Shimane's first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The...

    Logos
  • 2018
    VIVAldi VVinter

    VIVAldi VVinter

    VIVAldi VVinter

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

    VIVAldi VVinter
  • 2024
    I Am Here Now

    I Am Here Now

    I Am Here Now

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    An abstract horror artefact conceptualising trans doubt and dysphoria as a physically invasive force - a virus....

    I Am Here Now
  • 1986
    Light

    Light

    Light

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    First personal experience with a Super-8 camera manually exposing film out of any light source.

    Light
  • 1970
    Knotte Grosse Loops

    Knotte Grosse Loops

    Knotte Grosse Loops

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    These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent...

    Knotte Grosse Loops
  • 2023
    Brute

    Brute

    Brute

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

    Brute
  • 2022
    Partially Obscured

    Partially Obscured

    Partially Obscured

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    A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to...

    Partially Obscured