Abstract Movies

The pantun is about a game I (we) used to play pretending to be the characters in invented fairy tales. This time it was a snail. The images of...

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...

Another example of Detheux’s enchanting work, this year deepened by some outstanding live performance experiences.

A visceral journey through dysphoria in the internet age.

Director River Roest sees Lil' Guys as an exploration of his love for animation, the exhaustion it can cause, and ultimately, the joy it brings. In...

An anxiety inducing exploration of juicy colors and crunchy textures driven by chaotic electronic music.

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

In his film #43, Joost Rekveld observes what happens to a system that is destabilised by ‘creative' pixels, drawing inspiration from the set of...

A flickering survey of worlds both urban and botanical. The frame as an unsettled space, a centre that cannot hold, suspended in its own vertigo....

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

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

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler

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

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...

The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words.

A mixed media experimental animated film that generates a fragmented view of the world through the partial disclosure of a fantastic event....

Every time we recall a memory, we change it a bit and parts of other memories bleed through.

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...

Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory,...

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force.