Abstract Movies

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

Everyday states of being and decay are observed through the infinite scope of the cosmos and the restorative light which emanates from it, driving...

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...

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

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...

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.

A colourful "fountain performance".

A visual album made to accompany the EP of the same name by I.L.L.

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

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the...

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for...

An abstract film on the music 'Unfinished' 8th Symphony, part 1, by Franz Schubert by Oerd van Cuijlenborg

Short film about the inability to sleep, or to remain asleep throughout the night.

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...

A short animation about identity.

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...

Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home.

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide...

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