Movies: Abstract expressionism
- 1999
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language (1999)
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory position. Used, on one hand, by post-modernist artists as just one more quotable style amongst many, it...
- 2020
Occurrences of Questionable Significance (2020)
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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 di...
- 1972
The New York School (1972)
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The band of American artists known as the New York School toyed with tradition and rebelled against the Renaissance.Feeling as though free association yielded their best results, the painters, poets and performers of the New York School took a surrea...
- 2023
4.48 Psychosis (2023)
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An adaptation of the play "4.48 Psychosis" written by Sarah Kane. The movie consists of scenes that work as a fragmenteded voyage through the mind of a person on a deeply depressive state. Everything is shown in a raw and experimental manner to bring...
- 2019
Lifeline: Clyfford Still (2019)
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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...
- 1984
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's (1984)
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Explores the paths being forged by six modern artists, giving us rare insight into the minds behind this rousing new wave of painting....
- 2023
Button Eyes (2023)
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"Button Eyes" is a 2D animated short film set from the abstract perspective of a strange beast born without eyes who travels across the land hoping to find a way to regain his sight....
- 2018
Pat Passlof: …unexpected conversation… (2018)
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“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...
- 1969
Enough of Myself (1969)
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Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? One day I decided to ask myself this question and I have been struggling to put the answer together ever since. “Enough of Myself” is my visualization of this process. When I finally had the headspace ...
- 1999
Jazzimation (1999)
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A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes. An abstract film drawn directly on the computer....
- 2021
Candle (2021)
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Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining fragments she tries to make amends with her spirit before her remaining fragments either decay or create...
- 2003
Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World (2003)
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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...
- 2016
Jackson Pollock's Mural: The Story of a Modern Masterpiece (2016)
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Jackson Pollock's 'Mural': The Story of a Modern Masterpiece is an Emmy Award winning documentary that explores the remarkable journey Pollock’s most influential painting took from New York to Iowa and around the world. Featuring well-known and respe...
- 2005
Here's a Piano I Prepared Earlier (2005)
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This documentary takes a look at how intrepid 1960s musicians like Cornelius Cardew, Gavin Bryars and John Cage changed the sound of music by stuffing pianos with hay or leaving the choice of notes up to the rolling of the dice....
- 1964
Earth Red (1964)
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- 1961
Kandinsky (1961)
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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...
- 2017
Pollock to (2017)
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The liberation of objects within objects. A tree is a Pollock....