Movies: Abstract

  • 2023
    Crepuscus

    Crepuscus (2023)

    Crepuscus

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    At dusk, an observer captures an absurd phenomenon....

    Crepuscus
  • 2016
    Dimensions

    Dimensions (2016)

    Dimensions

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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....

    Dimensions
  • 2012
    A Dream...

    A Dream... (2012)

    A Dream...

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    A Dream... is an abstract, horror piece that explores the subconscious mind of modern, western man, touching on cultural guilt, self deception, and maintaining individuality in an impersonal world. The work is inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka....

    A Dream...
  • 2001
    Bag

    Bag (2001)

    Bag

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    袋 Fukuro (Japanese for "bag" or "sack") is a 3-minute short film from 2001. It features Pyramid Head and a Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2, the Fukuro Lady, and many monsters from early sketches for Silent Hill 2. The film contains disturbing, surrea...

    Bag
  • 2024
    -Oh

    -Oh (2024)

    -Oh

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    A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously....

    -Oh
  • 1973
    Landscape

    Landscape (1973)

    Landscape

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    Chicago streets....

    Landscape
  • 1965
    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions (1965)

    Early Abstractions

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    Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and six minutes long, and is named according to the chronological order in which it was made. The collecti...

    Early Abstractions
  • 2015
    Disporting with a Shadow

    Disporting with a Shadow (2015)

    Disporting with a Shadow

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    Water, fire and oil mix into an anxious premonition read across the surface of an eye, a pond and an expressway. Filmed in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland. Music by Alex Cobb 16mm color and B&W film by Paul Clipson...

    Disporting with a Shadow
  • 2019
    PUEDO VER TODO MENOS MIS OJOS

    PUEDO VER TODO MENOS MIS OJOS (2019)

    PUEDO VER TODO MENOS MIS OJOS

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    PUEDO VER TODO MENOS MIS OJOS
  • 2019
    Twilight

    Twilight (2019)

    Twilight

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    An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors....

    Twilight
  • 2024

    "Don't Scream Now" (2024)

    "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"...

  • 2000
    Hell Frozen Over

    Hell Frozen Over (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 the 2000 Walker Art Center exhibition Let's Entertain, this short film employs a range of strategies to approach th...

    Hell Frozen Over
  • 1974
    Flesh Flows

    Flesh Flows (1974)

    Flesh Flows

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    “[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement] returns to itself and rushes to catch up with its successor.” (Gadassik) Preserved by the Academy Film Archi...

    Flesh Flows
  • 2001
    The Dowager's Idyll

    The Dowager's Idyll (2001)

    The Dowager's Idyll

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    2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short...

    The Dowager's Idyll
  • 1989
    Emergencies

    Emergencies (1989)

    Emergencies

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    An ambulance heads towards the "crossroads of the crow's feet" in response to an accident. Unable to find the place, the driver stops at an intersection to ask for directions from a dull-eared local....

    Emergencies
  • 2024
    A Man Walking Backwards and Forwards

    A Man Walking Backwards and Forwards (2024)

    A Man Walking Backwards and Forwards

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    A Man Walking Backwards and Forwards
  • 1952
    Color Cry

    Color Cry (1952)

    Color Cry

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    In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he mixed with artists who later became the Abstract Expressionists, encouraged New York’s emerging filmmaker...

    Color Cry
  • 1953
    Things to Come

    Things to Come (1953)

    Things to Come

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    A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000....

    Things to Come
  • 1959
    High Voltage

    High Voltage (1959)

    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
  • 2017
    140 Characters

    140 Characters (2017)

    140 Characters

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    "We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller...

    140 Characters