Abstract Movies

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the m...

A person living in Liberty City goes to work, have some food & gets back home.

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

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

A nematic painting of sleep.

A knight has second thoughts before the coronation of a new king.

A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into a...

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...

The fan's self-sacrificing blades dance in the air, generating a refreshing breeze that wipes away the sweat of others and brings solace on a scorchin...

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music an...

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.

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...

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...

An abstract exploration of memory and loss.

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force.

Deluge is a 2010 post-apocalyptic short film directed by Australian musician Lulu Collard.

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

Short experimental animation.

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short film “Photographing...

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