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7.9
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77
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73
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4.0
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99
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90
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82
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Rivers and Tides (2001)
Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.
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Kanopy
81
7.4
/562/
70
/31/
72
/13/
3.7
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96
/28/
88
/1/
78
/7/

Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint (2019)
How can an artist discover abstraction by the beginning of the 20th century and nobody is noticing? A woman, misjudged and concealed, rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre. Hilma af Klint was a pioneer creating her first abstract painting in 1906, four years before Vassily Kandinsky. But why was she ignored? Why are her paintings not available on the market? This first film on her is about her life and work, the role of women in art history and the discovery of an art scandal. Her quest for meaning in life and a boundless thinking led into a timeless, outstanding oeuvre.
poster
78
7.2
/6641/
70
/106/
66
/77/
3.9
/9561/
89
/28/
72
/83/
79
/14/

An Unmarried Woman (1978)
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
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Kanopy
76
44
7.2
/847/
82
/17/
69
/17/
3.6
/1326/
89
/28/
73
/14/
77
/11/

Gerhard Richter Painting (2011)
Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass media representation alongside explorations of chance procedures. This first glimpse inside his studio in decades is exactly that: a thrilling document of the 79-year-old's creative process, juxtaposed with rare archival footage and intimate conversations with his critics and collaborators.
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36
5.1
/959/
48
/36/
55
/33/
3.1
/1596/
60
/790/

Heaven and Earth Magic (1962)
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 part depicts the return to Earth from being eaten by Max Müller on the day Edward VII dedicated the Great Sewer of London.
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73
/3/
80
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What I See (2025)
Art student Ian Jing impresses the realism-loving art teacher Mrs. Hui from the get-go. Following her advice, he draws exactly what he sees, straining his eyes in the process. To Mrs. Hui’s horror, Ian’s artwork gets progressively blurrier. In turn, his online fame skyrockets, as art critics on social media praise his unique style as an abstract artist. They ascribe deep, profound (pretentious) intentions and meanings to his stylistic choices, when all he's actually doing is drawing exactly what he sees.
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50
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Swinging Light (2025)
An experience of a camera swinging in different gestures facing the optical distortion of the Sun. The last appearance of the smudge.
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10
/1/

Kandinsky (1957)
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 unknown masterpiece of abstract art leaning against the easel - a picture which turned out to be one of his own landscapes fallen on its side. 'Now I knew for certain that the object spoiled my pictures.' While this film's narration does indeed emphasize the notion of an inspired breakthrough to Abstraction, the picture it conveys in more purely filmic ways is a rich and complex one.
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100
/1/

Contours (2025)
Upon using a modern art museum as the setting for a role play game that goes hopelessly awry, a deaf couple desperate to rekindle their spark finds the reconnection they seek in their shared experience over an abstract sculpture.
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20
/1/
100
/1/

La Señal Cósmica (2018)
The film was produced applying mixed techniques on Super 8 film support.
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3.8
/14/
70
/1/
100
/1/

Layla (2018)
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.
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9.9
/11/
100
/1/

Occurrences of Questionable Significance (2020)
When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.
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10
/1/

Earth Red (1964)
N/A
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80
/1/

Quando Tudo Acabar (2022)
A childlike soul runs through their lives, all bound together by the same root trauma.
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4.4
/8/
10
/1/

Speaker (1980)
A portrait of a speaker, engrossed in his own speech, finds the hall empty.
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100
/1/

Impromptu (2017)
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 the end of the 19th century, to its immortal muses, and to the fascination with movement itself.
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10
/1/

Artist in Montreal (1954)
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 cooperative studio. The film also captures painter Paterson Ewen at his home and joins the crowd at L'Échouerie, the artists' rendezvous spot. Dr. Robert Hubbard, chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada, comments on non-objective art in general and automatism in particular.
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100
/1/

Claire (2016)
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 for a (yet unreleased) project called Un film de papier, I’ve stumbled upon Latxague’s artwork, entitled À la renverse. The blow-ups were made in an attempt of unearthing cartographic imagery in abstract compositions.
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70
/1/

O Não Visto (2022)
In this unofficial sequel to "Every Single Minute", the boy finds himself lost in his sleep state.
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6.9
/13/
50
/1/

Peter Monaghan: A Portrait (2012)
This documentary features a kinetic artist who creates vibrant mixed media works that push the boundary between 2D and 3D.
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90
/1/

All The Stars We Made (2022)
A journey through a composite galaxy of artificial light.
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Kanopy
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8.3
/59/
85
/4/

Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World (2003)
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 year. Interviews with Martin are inter-cut with shots at work in her studio in Taos, New Mexico, with photographs and archival footage, and with images of her work from over five decades. It is a venue for Martin to speak about her work, her working methods, her life as an artist, and her views about the creative process. She also discusses her film, "Gabriel" and reads from her poetry and lectures. In keeping with Martin's chosen life of solitude, she alone appears in the documentary.
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10
/1/

Kandinsky (1986)
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 the first abstract pictures, the theoretical basis of which was inspired by his essay Uber das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art). Accompanied by Mussorgsky's Pictures From An Exhibition Labarthe goes on a sensual journey which makes the soul resound with colours and forms. "A picture has to resound and must be bathed in an inner glow." Kandinsky
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60
/1/

Third Interpolation (1999)
Shapes projected onto an abstract environment. The movement and scale of the forms in the film is a beautiful equivalent of the dynamics of the soundtrack
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6.0
/7/
46
/3/

Beyond Picasso (1986)
Schwartz reordered and combined angular contours, broken planes, and distorted proportions in her own pictorial structures in an homage to Picasso's style.
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7.8
/24/
56
/3/
80
/3/

PAPERS (1991)
Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao, assembled from newspapers.
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100
/1/

Lonely People (2021)
The short film tells the story of a frustrated priest when faced with an apparently impartial friend, who was wearing a "social mask"
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40
/2/

Teddy Bear Maelstrom (1983)
An Animated Short Film by Glen Entis
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70
/1/

Nocturne no.248 (2008)
An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore.
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90
/1/

Snares (2017)
Experimental short film by Rainer Kohlberger
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20
/1/

Dano Lunático (2023)
The short film in a non-linear structure goes through the interpretation of timelines
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5.1
/25/
25
/2/
45
/2/

Embryo No.M (1971)
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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Kanopy
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6.8
/7/
70
/1/

Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades (2005)
Curator Robert Storr takes us through the 2002 MoMA Gerhard Richter retrospective.
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100
/1/

Ramusiana (2017)
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).
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100
/1/

Rodez (2017)
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.
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Kanopy
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7.4
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70
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80
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Lifeline: Clyfford Still (2019)
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 original contributors to abstract expressionism, walked away from the commercial art world at the height of his career. Extremely disciplined, principled, and prolific, Still left behind a treasure trove of works like no other major artist in history. With a wonderful mosaic of archival material, found footage and audio recorded by the artist himself, Lifeline paints a picture of a modern icon, his uncompromising creative journey and the price of independence.
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60
/2/

Üks Uks (2003)
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.
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5.7
/32/
40
/2/

Quilt (1996)
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.
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75
/2/

Anoche (2017)
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.
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A Coyote Walks (2025)
A coyote walks through a distorted reality without color.
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walking back 2 highschool (2025)
A student finds out he is late for his train.
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Facing (2025)
Facing is a short experimental film that turns the grocery aisle into a frenetic canvas. Shot with rapid cuts and a constantly moving camera, the film zooms through product labels until they dissolve into chaotic blurs, streaks of color, and fractured lines. Familiar packaging blurs together in a fast, chaotic montage, where the images overlap and mix until they turn into shifting colors and patterns.
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Foreign Tides
A Soul Drifts through heartbreaks wreckage, seeking rebirth on new shores.
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Question/Rhythmic Triangles/Fighting Cards (1932)
An abstract art film.
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ANTHROPOD (2022)
A creature traverses an uncertain terrain
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Pat Passlof: …unexpected conversation… (2018)
“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) was an ambitious abstract expressionist painter who produced large scale, fresh, and vital bodies of work. Studying under pioneering artist William de Kooning, she was able to find her own path and grow from his influence. Her patterns and grids come alive with the materiality and physicality of her paintings. Watch as Pasloff describes her experiences painting, gaining an education in art, and as her visual language of emotion comes alive.
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Running Fields IV (2024)
Twenty-four images of a camera running in the woods, a moonlight and a cemetery through improvised gestures, mechanical abstraction and saturated colors
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Sean Scully: Art Comes from Need (2008)
The documentary accompanies Irish-born artist Sean Scully as he works on his piece “Grey Wolf”.


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