Geometric Shapes Movies
- 1965
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics7.31965HD
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...
- 1923
Rhythm 23
Rhythm 235.41923HD
We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...
- 1969
Spheres
Spheres5.71969HD
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...
- 1966
Notes on a Triangle
Notes on a Triangle81966HD
In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into...
- 2012
Chase
Chase02012HD
An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath.
- 1973
Evolution of the Red Star
Evolution of the Red Star71973HD
Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master...
- 1983
Precious Metal Variations
Precious Metal Variations01983HD
An abstract animation film in which a series of shapes rotate and evolve into other forms producing an illusion of depth. Colour, texture and...
- 2003
Allahu Akbar
Allahu Akbar32003HD
Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...
- 1972
Keep on Turning
Keep on Turning01972HD
In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.
- 2001
Giant Steps
Giant Steps02001HD
2-minute animation film to music by John Coltrane.
- 1984
Rectangle & Rectangles
Rectangle & Rectangles01984HD
This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker...
- 1979
Cube
Cube01979HD
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...
- 1980
Plans & Elevations
Plans & Elevations01980HD
Abstract geometric diagrams come to life.
- 2011
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,...
- 1983
Sakuhin
Sakuhin01983HD
Yumi Shima's animated short film is an experiment with geometric objects.
- 2010
Mamori
Mamori4.82010HD
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...
- 1980
Precious Metal
Precious Metal01980HD
A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.
- 2012
Shift
Shift02012HD
An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or...
- 2013
Barcode III.0
Barcode III.062013HD
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...
- 1985
Calculated Movements
Calculated Movements01985HD
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...