Abstract Movies
- 2000

Hell Frozen Over
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Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for...
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- 2003

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...
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- 2009

The Artifice
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An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.
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- 2000

Scratch
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In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are...
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- 1970

Requiem
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A grieving choreographer tries to connect with her deceased partner through ritual dance, pushing her body beyond its natural limit until it breaks.
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- 2026

Unearthly
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Two brothers move silently through the mundane world, carrying an unseen offering of light. As they journey from place to place, dancing and...
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- 1963

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...
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- 1970

Close-Up: an oddyssey
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Aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel in this...
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- 1961

Drums West
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This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the...
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- 2018

Kaparamip
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Abstract animation by Boris Labbé
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- 2018

Ciciri
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Abstract animation by Boris Labbé
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- 1961

Prelude: Dog Star Man
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A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...
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- 2020

Vulcania
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Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.
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- 2015

Marking Time
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"3D Video SBS (side by side) format. For viewing on 3D monitor or television" -Le Grice
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- 1989

Interrogation
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A man is horribly tortured by another who wants him to reveal where his girlfriend is hiding.
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- 1969

Quacked Jokes/Early Animations
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The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside...
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- 1969

Our Lady of the Sphere
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Our Lady of the Sphere uses cut-out animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are...
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- 2026

An Island
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New experimental short from James Fotopoulos.
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- 1999

Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...
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- 2015

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