Abstract Movies

Chicago streets.

An abstract audiovisual poem by electronic musician and composer Ralph Lundsten.

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

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force.

Coping Strategies is a stop-motion animation created from the screen prints of Ellie Honel

Another example of Detheux’s enchanting work, this year deepened by some outstanding live performance experiences.

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...

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

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

An abstract visual journey into the inner space where the primal urge for evil is born. Real footage transforms through distortion, light fields and...

A virtual sky awash with a digital aurora.

A found footage collage film sourced from several different places and composed primarily of audio from the films of Jean-Luc Godard.

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler

This abstract video art piece was made for the purposes of being a backdrop to a semi-improvisational three person dance piece and live spoken word...

A flickering survey of worlds both urban and botanical. The frame as an unsettled space, a centre that cannot hold, suspended in its own vertigo....

A nematic painting of sleep.

A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made...

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