Abstract Movies

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home.

Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water,...

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...

Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching...

A young man from Toronto, struggles with connecting with his culture, as he wishes to write and read his mother tongue. When his wish gets granted,...

High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.

"An exciting experiment in the tradition of Oskar Fischinger (Komposition in Blau, 1935), Dwinell Grant (Composition No. 1, 1940) and Slavko...

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

An official bootleg of Shearling's 2025 European tour live at Lightspace, Leeds (September 11th), recorded by The Factory Roof (Annya McCabe).

Global in scope but intimate in spirit, Simon Liu's Fallen Arches is a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and...

One day, one moment, there the forest has its own time. The place without meridian. The empty place. The place without human. The place has been...

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

In his film #43, Joost Rekveld observes what happens to a system that is destabilised by ‘creative' pixels, drawing inspiration from the set of...

A raccoon on a voxel boat talks about his job.

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...

Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife,...

An abstract mood piece that aims to cultivate existential anxiety, exploring the shape and purpose of both man-made and natural objects, while...

A short, abstract look at the effects of repetition on the human mind.

A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.