Abstract Movies

"An exciting experiment in the tradition of Oskar Fischinger (Komposition in Blau, 1935), Dwinell Grant (Composition No. 1, 1940) and Slavko...

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as...

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...

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

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"

Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.

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...

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

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

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

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

A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.

The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which...

Fleshworm Dreams is a trippy, kaleidoscopic visual experience that pairs with an abstract, experimental nature record. Think of it like looking...

An abstract short film that sheds light on the bad habits of the society in which we evolve, but in a dark satiric & cynical way.

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

A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously.

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leather,...