Abstract Movies

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

An abstract journey through the unconscious in transition of a protagonist stretched out on the asphalt, on a Sunday

One day, one moment, there the forest has its own time. The place without meridian. The empty place. The place without human. The place has been...

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.

June 1971 - in a fluid landscape completely below sea level, a young biology student dies during the last year of his studies, leaving behind an...

Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.

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

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music

An abstract 3-ink risograph animation exploring endometriosis tissue acting as a parasite taking root in the body of its host. Produced as an ident...

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

Short experimental animation.

At dusk, an observer captures an absurd phenomenon.

A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.

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

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

A ghost follows its non-existent shadow across a series of windows that gives light but no direction. As the ghost moves, a poem is read that serves...

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

A poem by Sophia Ron brought to life. Silhouettes, shapes, caresses; death. Even irony and a strong youth alienation plague the images. But what will...

Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre Cantu Ledesma.