Movies: Abstract

A found footage collage film sourced from several different places and composed primarily of audio from the films of Jean-Luc Godard....

Hand-drawn animation tests, trials and experiments from way back when, with some water color, cut into a sweet. little. diddle. diddy. biddy. beep beep. boop boop. video....

Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation draws the eye down to the small gate of the camera. From there, through quivering and percussive forms of direct and stop-motion animation, the eye begins to experience the scale of an image anew. At times seguein...

The second film in the Phosphenes series....

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 deep time....

A collage hosted by "The Pointless", a dying overlord....

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

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 catch the sun with my hands"....

A Sense Of Place is a short film made with scanned images of transparent Adhesive Sticky Tape. The traces, marks, and imprints left on the tape were scanned and animated into a noisy moving image, overlaying with slow-motion footage from a platform f...

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 multiplied me are out of time with each other, I give up and try dancing....

A short, abstract look at the effects of repetition on the human mind....

A computer program named A.D.O.M tries to create a living being that will help to release both of them from their void. This film was created exclusively with stock video and royalty free music. Stock Elements from pixapay.com Music from filmmusi...

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

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 buzzing metropoles New York and Hong Kong....

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

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 Marin Headlands County in California when I was an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the ...

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 Dwayne’s Photo....

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

Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense. Super-8, silent, color, b&w. Dedicated to Bill Gubbins....

A short animation about identity....