Abstract Movies

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...

The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which...

Lulu the dog gets a job at the local convenience store and stays up all night cleaning the back room. Short created for [adult swim] Smalls.

An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.

A short animation about identity.

Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leather,...

Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.

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.

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation...

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.

Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama...

Short film about the inability to sleep, or to remain asleep throughout the night.

Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that...

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project