Abstract Movies

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...

An Art and a Short Film in which the director records his childhood experiences and memories through the mischievous activities of a boy named...

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

Fleshworm Dreams is a trippy, kaleidoscopic visual experience that pairs with an abstract, experimental nature record. Think of it like looking...

A Sense Of Place is a short film made with scanned images of transparent Adhesive Sticky Tape. The traces, marks, and imprints left on the tape were...

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

He needs to be helped out.

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 vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is...

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...

A description of some parts of the world - explored, visited, documented, imagined. An abstract attempt at finding them again. The title refers to...

The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The...

Claire is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of a series of three ink-on-paper artworks created in 2012 by French-Spanish researcher, publisher...

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

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

Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light...

Students walk into a photography studio to have their photograph taken, and put on a smile for the picture. But as soon as the camera flashes, it...

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

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