Abstract Movies

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...

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

A short film about young adults and their complicated relationship to Hongdae — a busy clubbing area filled to the brim with Seoul's youth.

A poem by Sophia Ron brought to life. Silhouettes, shapes, caresses; death. Even irony and a strong youth alienation plague the images. But what will...

A man comes home at night and is attacked by a bottle.

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...

A teenage boy, Jimmy, goes through his day-to-day life, preparing for a school dance with his friends. Unexpectedly, a mysterious black hand slowly...

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

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...

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

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...

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

An expression of time and memories.

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...

An attempt at “total art” performed during the 2020 lockdown.

A virtual sky awash with a digital aurora.

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...