Abstract Movies

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the artist'...

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

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.

What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and distancing...

Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by One-D...

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.

An abstract short film that sheds light on the bad habits of the society in which we evolve, but in a dark satiric & cynical way.

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he mixed...

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while overco...

An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

An abstract exploration of memory and loss.

After Billy finds a winning scratch ticket, the gas station gets a new lottery machine that becomes the talk of the town. Part of [adult swim] smalls...

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

袋 Fukuro (Japanese for "bag" or "sack") is a 3-minute short film from 2001. It features Pyramid Head and a Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2, the Fukur...

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no defined subje...