Abstract Movies

  • 2017
    Tremble All You Want

    Tremble All You Want

    Tremble All You Want

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    Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming...

    Tremble All You Want
  • 1968
    Head

    Head

    Head

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    In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and...

    Head
  • 1981
    Son of the White Mare

    Son of the White Mare

    Son of the White Mare

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    A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim...

    Son of the White Mare
  • 1963
    21-87

    21-87

    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...

    21-87
  • 1980
    Precious Metal

    Precious Metal

    Precious Metal

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    A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.

    Precious Metal
  • 2024
    Metamorphic

    Metamorphic

    Metamorphic

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    She's here. She comes closer. Is she in front of me? Now she, by herself, becomes her.

    Metamorphic
  • 1962
    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    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...

    Prelude: Dog Star Man
  • 1965
    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

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    Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
  • 1995
    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava

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    The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

    Casa de Lava
  • 2019
    The Goal Is To Live

    The Goal Is To Live

    The Goal Is To Live

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    The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which...

    The Goal Is To Live
  • 1976
    Window

    Window

    Window

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    "This is taking a Super 8mm camera around with me wherever I go and I'm very interested in windows at this time of travel, and I'm trying to make a...

    Window
  • 2022
    Nour

    Nour

    Nour

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    Nour
  • 2022
    Sunfall

    Sunfall

    Sunfall

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    A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.

    Sunfall
  • 1958
    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals

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    In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using...

    Free Radicals
  • 1999
    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    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...

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
  • 2017
    On Generation and Corruption

    On Generation and Corruption

    On Generation and Corruption

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    Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between...

    On Generation and Corruption
  • 2021
    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

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    Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light...

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts
  • 1974
    Fuji

    Fuji

    Fuji

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    A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

    Fuji
  • 2024
    Mildew

    Mildew

    Mildew

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    'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while...

    Mildew
  • 2012
    A Dream...

    A Dream...

    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...

    A Dream...