Movies: Abstract art

  • 2010
    Sean Scully: Art Comes from Need

    Sean Scully: Art Comes from Need (2010)

    Sean Scully: Art Comes from Need

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    The documentary accompanies Irish-born artist Sean Scully as he works on his piece “Grey Wolf”....

    Sean Scully: Art Comes from Need
  • 2024
    Beyond the Moonlight

    Beyond the Moonlight (2024)

    Beyond the Moonlight

    02024HD

    Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project...

    Beyond the Moonlight
  • 2018
    Layla

    Layla (2018)

    Layla

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    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....

    Layla
  • 2023
    Am I Still On Time?

    Am I Still On Time? (2023)

    Am I Still On Time?

    02023HD

    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...

    Am I Still On Time?
  • 2019
    Lifeline: Clyfford Still

    Lifeline: Clyfford Still (2019)

    Lifeline: Clyfford Still

    82019HD

    Jackson Pollock said, “he makes the rest of us look academic,” Mark Rothko acknowledged him as a “myth-maker” and Clement Greenberg called him “a highly influential maverick and an independent genius.” Clyfford Still, one of the strongest, most origi...

    Lifeline: Clyfford Still
  • 1962
    Heaven and Earth Magic

    Heaven and Earth Magic (1962)

    Heaven and Earth Magic

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    The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel and Montreal. The second pa...

    Heaven and Earth Magic
  • 2024
    Cant Cant

    Cant Cant (2024)

    Cant Cant

    02024HD

    An anthropomorphic creature has trouble sleeping....

    Cant Cant
  • 2017
    Rodez

    Rodez (2017)

    Rodez

    102017HD

    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....

    Rodez
  • 2022
    Nour

    Nour (2022)

    Nour

    02022HD

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    Nour
  • 2017
    Ramusiana

    Ramusiana (2017)

    Ramusiana

    102017HD

    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)....

    Ramusiana
  • 2016
    Claire

    Claire (2016)

    Claire

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    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 ...

    Claire
  • 1996
    Quilt

    Quilt (1996)

    Quilt

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    An abstract animated film, using computer and experimental techniques in choreographing quilt motifs and designs to music. A tribute to the unique and long-established art form of patchwork quilting. A film without words....

    Quilt
  • 2017
    Anoche

    Anoche (2017)

    Anoche

    7.52017HD

    Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy soundtrack. Fragmented lines, exploding bass frequencies and flickering....

    Anoche
  • 1913
    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film (1913)

    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

    01913HD

    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...

    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film
  • 2005
    Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades

    Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades (2005)

    Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades

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

    Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
  • 2003
    Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World

    Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World (2003)

    Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World

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    A groundbreaking documentary on the internationally renowned painter, designated by ARTnews Magazine one of the world's top-ten living artists. This documentary was shot over a period of four years, from 1998 through 2002, Agnes Martin's ninetieth ye...

    Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World
  • 2023
    O Concerto de Ontem

    O Concerto de Ontem (2023)

    O Concerto de Ontem

    02023HD

    Protagonist is faced with an internalized feeling that emerges in a moment in memory...

    O Concerto de Ontem
  • 2003
    Üks Uks

    Üks Uks (2003)

    Üks Uks

    02003HD

    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....

    Üks Uks
  • 1954
    Artist in Montreal

    Artist in Montreal (1954)

    Artist in Montreal

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    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...

    Artist in Montreal
  • 2020
    Cada Minuto

    Cada Minuto (2020)

    Cada Minuto

    02020HD

    Boy experiences pleasant visit from painful loss...

    Cada Minuto