Movies: Abstract
- 2017
Rodez (2017)
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An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering consisting of 292 photographs....
- 2024
Monosyllabic (2024)
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In an alternate universe, the dinosaurs have roared one too many times before the asteroid hits Earth. The consequences that follow could be catastrophic....
- 2012
Down with the Dawn (2012)
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Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation from Run Wrake and Howie B....
- 1969
Elsa (1969)
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- 2020
Casual Workers (2020)
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An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19...
- 2022
Woman Is My Last Name (2022)
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This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power....
- 2021
A Heap of Broken Images (2021)
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Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes....
- 2023
Mohammad Saadh (2023)
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An Art and a Short Film in which the director records his childhood experiences and memories through the mischievous activities of a boy named Mohammad Saadh....
- 1953
Obmaru (1953)
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"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she found herself in the midst of fascinating non-objective painting and filmmaking activity. She was grea...
- 2016
Dimensions (2016)
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A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns. As with an atom, the variety of possibilities from a base movement is potentially infinite....
- 1989
Graffiti (1989)
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A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall. Then, with the blood of the animal, she draws a heart pierced by an arrow....
- 1986
Light (1986)
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First personal experience with a Super-8 camera manually exposing film out of any light source....
- 2019
Finding Vision, Finding Voice (2019)
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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 monologue in collaboration with other artists of various fields. Blurring the line between tradition a...
- 1973
Squares (1973)
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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 against a beautiful symphonic score by George Kleinsinger....
- 2021
Pulvaaliraghu (2021)
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The fan's self-sacrificing blades dance in the air, generating a refreshing breeze that wipes away the sweat of others and brings solace on a scorching day....
- 2016
Trans/Figure/Ground (2016)
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A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital....
- 1978
3/78 (Objects and Transformations) (1978)
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Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied by the sound of a Shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute), the film is an exercise in the visual perce...
- 1959
Odds & Ends (1959)
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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, Belson Shimane added a mélange of animation—assemblages, cutouts, color fields, and line drawings—and fau...
- 2024
Crossing (2024)
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A study of water and fire....
- 1958
Somnambulists (1958)
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In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Adam Nurzyński – produced in cooperation with Tadeusz Kantor the short film Somnambulists. The colourful, painting-like moving image was an attempt at t...