Abstract Movies

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

Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation draws the eye down to the small gate of the camera. From there, through quivering and percussive forms of...

Coping Strategies is a stop-motion animation created from the screen prints of Ellie Honel

Abstract experimental film by Ignacio Mardones

With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged, epilepsy-inducing sound and vision;...

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

These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent...

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

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is...

Crab Day is a short film made to accompany Cate Le Bon’s eponymous album, released on April 15, 2016 via Turnstile. Directed by Phil Collins...

Director River Roest sees Lil' Guys as an exploration of his love for animation, the exhaustion it can cause, and ultimately, the joy it brings. In...

Gogu’s feelings living with his parents for the past 28 years and still being a (fat) jobless filmmaker.

A depressed man contemplates the imminent end of the world.

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.

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

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...

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...