Abstract Movies

The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2008.After returning to Japan, I soon began making...

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...

A condensation of a handful of sunsets with various visual moods. Red and blue as opposites that still find a way to cohere. Concrete silhouettes...

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

An experimental short that flips color to challenge how we see the world around us.

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

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...

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

Designed for continuous single or multiple monitor display (as well as video projection), the tape is a collection of computer animated sequences of...

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

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no...

The Stroke is a hand-drawn animation film that reverses the roles of audio and visuals for a music video. Improvised on its very first viewing, the...

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

A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue.

The dream of an undinal being.

A virtual sky awash with a digital aurora.

Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak...

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

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