Abstract Movies

Chicago streets.

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to...

A virtual sky awash with a digital aurora.

abstract short

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

Bizarre abstract stop-motion animation questioning traditional values in a period of great social upheaval.

Jane Conger Belson Shimane's first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The...

The dream of an undinal being.

Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in...

The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the...

Upset with where his life has gone, Torgo seeks to make some changes

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

A teenage boy, Jimmy, goes through his day-to-day life, preparing for a school dance with his friends. Unexpectedly, a mysterious black hand slowly...

Coping Strategies is a stop-motion animation created from the screen prints of Ellie Honel

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

An unnamed man peacefully sips cocktails at a nightclub. Simultaneously, an identical, unnamed man paints a self-portrait in an abandoned cabin in...

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force.

The second film in the Phosphenes series.

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

A short film about young adults and their complicated relationship to Hongdae — a busy clubbing area filled to the brim with Seoul's youth.