Movies: Abstract art

This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal. The movement, initiated by Paul-Émile Borduas, is explained by the artists themselves when narrator Bruce Ruddick drops in at their coo...

Experimental short film by Rainer Kohlberger...

The story of a man who has reached the very top of society and eventually became a victim of his own ideology....

Claire is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of a series of three ink-on-paper artworks created in 2012 by French-Spanish researcher, publisher and artist Claire Latxague. While collecting drawings, written documents and other printed materials ...

A journey to the origins of cinema, starting with its forgotten fathers: the pioneers who achieved moving images before 1895, the official year of the Lumière cinematograph. Through five studies by Frédéric Chopin, 'Impromptu' is also a tribute to th...

This documentary features a kinetic artist who creates vibrant mixed media works that push the boundary between 2D and 3D....

A portrait of a speaker, engrossed in his own speech, finds the hall empty....

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"...

A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, such a project was beyond technological possibility. His pioneering efforts to combine luminous, expressive painting and the moving picture were furthe...

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A journey through the unconscious of the central character, who visits, in past colors, important signs of his life....

At the conclusion of the "Trilogy of the Tie" the boy has his last dream in memory of his deceased beloved....

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns. As with an atom, the variety of possibilities from a base movement is potentially infinite....

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore....

A creature traverses an uncertain terrain...

Abstract study of two couples in the logic of a love breakup...

The short film in a non-linear structure goes through the interpretation of timelines...

An abstract journey through the unconscious in transition of a protagonist stretched out on the asphalt, on a Sunday...

A childlike soul runs through their lives, all bound together by the same root trauma....

“Pat Pasloff is a strong artist within a strong tradition…She has transcended some of the angst of Abstract Expressionism, without descending into something that is bland or formulaic or potentially conceptual” – David Cohen Pat Pasloff (1928 – 2011...