Abstract Filmes

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree.

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

A swarm of forms, reminiscent of alien spaceships or mechanical bats suspended in space.

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

Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame.

Global in scope but intimate in spirit, Simon Liu's Fallen Arches is a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and...

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

From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life in this experimental visual music film.

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...

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music...

The fourth film in the series, for which I focused on colors and shapes. It was shot on Kodachrome, all edited in camera, and processed at...

#23.2 Book of Mirrors deals with the multiplication of light beams through mirrors and kaleidoscopes.

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

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a...

A blind man stumbles about in a desert before his seeing stick is caught in a bear trap. Crawling, he manages to find a waiting line composed of the...

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...

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

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...