Abstract Movies

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.

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...

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation...

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

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

An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and...

Experiment by Lex Barrett.

An abstract animation with a motif of a dragonfly, and a complex multi-exposure landscape of a field and a woman's naked body overlap.

He needs to be helped out.

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

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

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...

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...

An abstract short film about an alien invasion.

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...

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

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