Abstract Movies

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

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...

The screen is divided again and again until the picture arranged in ever changing strips bursts into whirring dynamic.

In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and re-form to the sound of the koto, a 13-stringed...

From the film-almanac on musical works of classics for children "Children's Album". A little film about genesis.

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

Polish avant-garde animation with changing colors and shapes that suggest birth followed by heavy distortion and building to a face in the swamp.

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...

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...

A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue.

This short experiments with the flow of oil ink over the surface of the water. Mizue manipulated the ink by blowing with straws or stirring with...

This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon.

Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage of abstract images that illustrate the neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan. TAV is located...

A virtual sky awash with a digital aurora.

A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.

Sketch Film #5 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2007, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA) This is the last film in the series. I shot at the site of...

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...

C+M, for YK. Subtractive colour blending is used in an attempt to conjure Yves Klein's 'L'accord bleu (RE 10)', 1960. The limitations imposed by...

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music