Abstract Movies

Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

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

The world shifts subtly while silent watchers already understand.

Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and...

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

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

Crab Day is a short film made to accompany Cate Le Bon’s eponymous album, released on April 15, 2016 via Turnstile. Directed by Phil Collins...

In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Adam...

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

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

[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.

The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence.

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...

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

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as...

Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has become obsolete by the digital dematerialization....

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

In Flesh Flows we see a balance of Beckett’s keen drawing ability, in the probing erotic forms, and his technical acuity, which transforms the...