Abstract Movies

A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in...

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

An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath.

Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation from Run Wrake and Howie B.

Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

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...

An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which...

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

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

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials...

Animation short by Alina Maliszewska.

Serenade is a milestone in the history of dance. It is the first original ballet George Balanchine created in America in 1934, and is one of the...

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns....

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

[The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity of...

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

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...

Water, fire and oil mix into an anxious premonition read across the surface of an eye, a pond and an expressway. Filmed in Los Angeles, San Francisco...

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