Abstract Movies

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

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

A young woman considers her relationship with her father

An abstract, surreal and experimental anthology consisting of five sequences exploring the themes of identity, the nature of existence and the human...

A man comes home at night and is attacked by a bottle.

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler

Attachment is an experimental, abstract short film about the attachment between the self and other from a marxist perspective, exploring how the...

Filmed in an empty shop, the remaining features of the space are used to create a kaleidoscopic light film. Ceiling lamps become coloured spheres and...

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore.

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...

Frankie lies. Frankie remembers an unfortunate event from his past and how it spiralled into the state he’s in now, with a little help from an...

An attempt at “total art” performed during the 2020 lockdown.

An abstract film, with which Pansini attempted "Malevichean" reduction. It is a blank, an empty film reel with coloristic and toned global changes,...

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....

The dream of an undinal being.

An expression of time and memories.

A silent evocation of perception and memory; an attempt to navigate the flotsam of elliptical impressions, earthly phenomena and dreamed images that...

A sequence of hand-drawn experiments. Constants: visualist, technology, run time. Independent variables: musician, drawing materials, theme. ...

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...