Abstract Movies

  • 1997
    Don't You Wish You Were Here?

    Don't You Wish You Were Here?

    Don't You Wish You Were Here?

    01997HD

    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...

    Don't You Wish You Were Here?
  • 2012
    Alone with the Moon

    Alone with the Moon

    Alone with the Moon

    02012HD

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

    Alone with the Moon
  • 2015
    Disporting with a Shadow

    Disporting with a Shadow

    Disporting with a Shadow

    62015HD

    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...

    Disporting with a Shadow
  • 2001
    Bag

    Bag

    Bag

    02001HD

    袋 Fukuro (Japanese for "bag" or "sack") is a 3-minute short film from 2001. It features Pyramid Head and a Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2,...

    Bag
  • 2012
    PXXXL

    PXXXL

    PXXXL

    02012HD

    Using century old technology, PXXXL creates digital glitch from analog process. It was animated directly on the celluloid without a camera, in a...

    PXXXL
  • 1972
    Air!

    Air!

    Air!

    6.51972HD

    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,...

    Air!
  • 1990
    Anyway

    Anyway

    Anyway

    8.51990HD

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

    Anyway
  • 1958
    Raga

    Raga

    Raga

    51958HD

    A hand animated film that is a precursor for Belson’s later work

    Raga
  • 1977
    Wet Paint

    Wet Paint

    Wet Paint

    81977HD

    [The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity of...

    Wet Paint
  • 1969
    Cosmos

    Cosmos

    Cosmos

    5.71969HD

    The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the...

    Cosmos
  • 2017
    140 Characters

    140 Characters

    140 Characters

    02017HD

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

    140 Characters
  • 2015
    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    72015HD

    "3D Video SBS (side by side) format. For viewing on 3D monitor or television" -Le Grice

    Marking Time
  • 2019
    Echo

    Echo

    Echo

    02019HD

    In this silent short film, we follow three stories grappling with grief. As the characters within these stories take action and process their...

    Echo
  • 1967
    Everything Is a Number

    Everything Is a Number

    Everything Is a Number

    5.51967HD

    Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

    Everything Is a Number
  • 1975
    Perspectrum

    Perspectrum

    Perspectrum

    01975HD

    In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and re-form to the sound of the koto, a 13-stringed...

    Perspectrum
  • 2011
    White Light/White Heat

    White Light/White Heat

    White Light/White Heat

    82011HD

    A strong laserbeam is deflected by two mirrors oscillating at very high speeds. The human eye perceives a stable image as long as they move fast...

    White Light/White Heat
  • 2001
    Mushroom

    Mushroom

    Mushroom

    52001HD

    Ki-No-Ko is a surreal five-minute short film published on Art of Silent Hill, Lost Memories: The Art & Music of Silent Hill and The Silent Hill...

    Mushroom
  • 2015
    cinéma concret

    cinéma concret

    cinéma concret

    6.52015HD

    Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that...

    cinéma concret
  • 2021
    The Mouth

    The Mouth

    The Mouth

    02021HD

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

    The Mouth
  • 1966
    EMS nr 1

    EMS nr 1

    EMS nr 1

    01966HD

    An abstract audiovisual poem by electronic musician and composer Ralph Lundsten.

    EMS nr 1