Movies: Abstract

  • 1981
    Son of the White Mare

    Son of the White Mare (1981)

    Son of the White Mare

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    A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom....

    Son of the White Mare
  • 1968
    Head

    Head (1968)

    Head

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    In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary....

    Head
  • 1961
    Drums West

    Drums West (1961)

    Drums West

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    This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstra...

    Drums West
  • 2017
    Tremble All You Want

    Tremble All You Want (2017)

    Tremble All You Want

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    Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming fixation has prevented her from even considering another candidate for boyfriend until an office colleague...

    Tremble All You Want
  • 1995
    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava (1995)

    Casa de Lava

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    The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama....

    Casa de Lava
  • 1962
    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)

    Prelude: Dog Star Man

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    A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Imag...

    Prelude: Dog Star Man
  • 2023
    Mohammad Saadh

    Mohammad Saadh (2023)

    Mohammad Saadh

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    An Art and a Short Film in which the director records his childhood experiences and memories through the mischievous activities of a boy named Mohammad Saadh....

    Mohammad Saadh
  • 2019
    The Goal Is To Live

    The Goal Is To Live (2019)

    The Goal Is To Live

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    The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which chronicles the factories that create everyday objects. The film takes Dina Kelberman’s practice of accumulation ...

    The Goal Is To Live
  • 1991
    The Elephant Graveyard

    The Elephant Graveyard (1991)

    The Elephant Graveyard

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    A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more vehicles are waiting to be crushed by powerful reducing machines, their passengers still inside....

    The Elephant Graveyard
  • 2012
    Heart String Marionette

    Heart String Marionette (2012)

    Heart String Marionette

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    A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into a never ending nightmare filled with horrible monsters....

    Heart String Marionette
  • 2024
    Magic Conch Shell

    Magic Conch Shell (2024)

    Magic Conch Shell

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    Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell....

    Magic Conch Shell
  • 2022
    Nour

    Nour (2022)

    Nour

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    Nour
  • 2023
    Pyre

    Pyre (2023)

    Pyre

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    Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking....

    Pyre
  • 1953
    Mandala

    Mandala (1953)

    Mandala

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    Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images....

    Mandala
  • 1955
    Calypso

    Calypso (1955)

    Calypso

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    Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music....

    Calypso
  • 2024
    the last day i can no longer remember.

    the last day i can no longer remember. (2024)

    the last day i can no longer remember.

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    An abstract, experimental, personal reappraisal of experiences and crises - the project was the result of an experiment....

    the last day i can no longer remember.
  • 1989
    Interrogation

    Interrogation (1989)

    Interrogation

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    A man is horribly tortured by another who wants him to reveal where his girlfriend is hiding....

    Interrogation
  • 1989
    Metrovision

    Metrovision (1989)

    Metrovision

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    A subway passenger suffers from hallucinations and sees the metro that he has just boarded accelerate and gain speed quickly....

    Metrovision
  • 1965
    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965)

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

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    Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively squiggle....

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
  • 2013
    Barcode III.0

    Barcode III.0 (2013)

    Barcode III.0

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    A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in every direction. This film is the remake of Barcode, an abstract road-movie about light and shadows....

    Barcode III.0