Abstract Movies

A couple are watching television together. Over time, the shows become more bizarre: a news report about the arrest of two terrorists reveals they...

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...

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...

A man comes home at night and is attacked by a bottle.

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

A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in...

Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, such a project was beyond technological...

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and...

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

A condensation of a handful of sunsets with various visual moods. Red and blue as opposites that still find a way to cohere. Concrete silhouettes...

A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital.

In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Adam...

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

This abstract video art piece was made for the purposes of being a backdrop to a semi-improvisational three person dance piece and live spoken word...

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker...

A short film released alongside AFI's 2003 album Sing The Sorrow. The four members of AFI search to obtain a mysterious box that bears a resemblance...

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