Abstract Movies

An anxiety inducing exploration of juicy colors and crunchy textures driven by chaotic electronic music.

Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a...

The strange transformation of a surveillance camera.

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

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the...

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes.

A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by...

Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendo-ing in time with Christopher...

A sculptor models a face with boxing gloves.

In this silent short film, we follow three stories grappling with grief. As the characters within these stories take action and process their...

#23.2 Book of Mirrors deals with the multiplication of light beams through mirrors and kaleidoscopes.

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

A condensation of a handful of sunsets with various visual moods. Red and blue as opposites that still find a way to cohere. Concrete silhouettes...

The second film in the Phosphenes series.

Quiet reflections at the end of the season.

An abstract exploration of memory and loss.

From the film-almanac on musical works of classics for children "Children's Album". A little film about genesis.