Geometric Shapes Movies

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

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    7.31965HD

    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...

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
  • 1923
    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23

    5.41923HD

    We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

    Rhythm 23
  • 1969
    Spheres

    Spheres

    Spheres

    5.71969HD

    This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited...

    Spheres
  • 1966
    Notes on a Triangle

    Notes on a Triangle

    Notes on a Triangle

    81966HD

    In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into...

    Notes on a Triangle
  • 2012
    Chase

    Chase

    Chase

    02012HD

    An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath.

    Chase
  • 1973
    Evolution of the Red Star

    Evolution of the Red Star

    Evolution of the Red Star

    71973HD

    Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master...

    Evolution of the Red Star
  • 1983
    Precious Metal Variations

    Precious Metal Variations

    Precious Metal Variations

    01983HD

    An abstract animation film in which a series of shapes rotate and evolve into other forms producing an illusion of depth. Colour, texture and...

    Precious Metal Variations
  • 2003
    Allahu Akbar

    Allahu Akbar

    Allahu Akbar

    32003HD

    Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

    Allahu Akbar
  • 1972
    Keep on Turning

    Keep on Turning

    Keep on Turning

    01972HD

    In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

    Keep on Turning
  • 2001
    Giant Steps

    Giant Steps

    Giant Steps

    02001HD

    2-minute animation film to music by John Coltrane.

    Giant Steps
  • 1984
    Rectangle & Rectangles

    Rectangle & Rectangles

    Rectangle & Rectangles

    01984HD

    This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker...

    Rectangle & Rectangles
  • 1979
    Cube

    Cube

    Cube

    01979HD

    A filmed exercise that follows in the path of Rotating Cubic Grid and Cubits, the predictably titled Cube features cubes of varying shapes and size...

    Cube
  • 1980
    Plans & Elevations

    Plans & Elevations

    Plans & Elevations

    01980HD

    Abstract geometric diagrams come to life.

    Plans & Elevations
  • 2011
    NOOR (Light)

    NOOR (Light)

    NOOR (Light)

    02011HD

    A tribute to the Masters of Middle Eastern Patterns. NOOR is 4D animation of classical design motifs and calligraphy from Arabic, Persian, Moroccan,...

    NOOR (Light)
  • 1983
    Sakuhin

    Sakuhin

    Sakuhin

    01983HD

    Yumi Shima's animated short film is an experiment with geometric objects.

    Sakuhin
  • 2010
    Mamori

    Mamori

    Mamori

    4.82010HD

    Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals...

    Mamori
  • 1980
    Precious Metal

    Precious Metal

    Precious Metal

    01980HD

    A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.

    Precious Metal
  • 2012
    Shift

    Shift

    Shift

    02012HD

    An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or...

    Shift
  • 2013
    Barcode III.0

    Barcode III.0

    Barcode III.0

    62013HD

    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...

    Barcode III.0
  • 1985
    Calculated Movements

    Calculated Movements

    Calculated Movements

    01985HD

    Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and...

    Calculated Movements