Driving (2006, 6MB, 4:39 min.)

Loop (2006, 11.8MB, 7:49 min.)

Two 2006 movies from Christian Marc Schmidt’s adaptive landscapes
sequence of work.
Check out the link above for Schmidt’s background notes on the pieces.
I’ll just observe that they are not alone in recent work featured here
in belonging to a category of work that could be called gorgeous formalism.