Abstract Movies

In a desolate world of endless horizons, black-clad figures drift through shifting states of emotion, identity, and self.

The guests are just like us: people who carry the burden of existing. Throughout nine episodes, partners (couples, friends, relatives) will sit next...

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

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

A silent evocation of perception and memory; an attempt to navigate the flotsam of elliptical impressions, earthly phenomena and dreamed images that...

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

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Animation short by Alina Maliszewska.

A doll acquires consciousness and embarks on an introspection of the self.

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are...

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

A disillusioned young man enjoys the beauty of the last minutes before Tomorrow.

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

"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she...

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

Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.

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...