Movies: Abstract cinema

Man is trying to find himself by doing circles around with his skateboard....

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 catch the sun with my hands"....

A document of energy forms in states of vibrating transmutation, this audio-visual composition uses LEDs, strobes and torches to create a mechanical "light-score."...

The short film tells the story of a frustrated priest when faced with an apparently impartial friend, who was wearing a "social mask"...

16mm hand-painted film....

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...