Abstract Movies

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

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leather,...

The weird hand creatures undergo different transformations in synchrony with the music.

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

Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano...

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An abstract short film about an alien invasion.

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

When viewed from far away, life on Earth can seem meaningless. But when a star inhabits a dying girl, they experience the tragic beauty found at the...

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

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

A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by...

'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

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

A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more...

An experimental short that flips color to challenge how we see the world around us.

Deluge is a 2010 post-apocalyptic short film directed by Australian musician Lulu Collard.

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...