Movies: Abstract art

This expressive and experimental short film by Iain Delavan features two distinct emotionally significant videos, broken up by an ethereal synthetic universe. Quoted by Delavan as "the best thing [they] have ever made", this film has many layers h...

An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering consisting of 292 photographs....

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....

Colour, form, area - this is the formula of the greatest pioneer of abstract painting. Kandinsky came to art late in life, but his impact through Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) and Bauhaus paved the way for modern art. In 1913, he created one of t...

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky claimed, or has been credited with, the 'creation' of abstract art. At the core of this film is a dramatic recreation of Kandinsky's account of returning to his studio one dark evening, and being astonished by an...

A description of some parts of the world - explored, visited, documented, imagined. An abstract attempt at finding them again. The title refers to geographer and civil servant of the Republic of Venice Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485-1557)....

Mark Rothko, a master of abstract expressionism, created 835 paintings during his five-decade career....

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...

An anthropomorphic creature has trouble sleeping....

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Doors in our life. Each has a melody, like a music box. They have stories, like a book. They will be opened one by one....

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

An experience of a camera swinging in different gestures facing the optical distortion of the Sun. The last appearance of the smudge....

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore....

Curator Robert Storr takes us through the 2002 MoMA Gerhard Richter retrospective....

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

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

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An Animated Short Film by Glen Entis...

In this 60 second art piece, a dog named Layla is called upon by nature to defend harmless daisy flowers from the wild grass that is conquering their territory....