Abstract Movies

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between...

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

Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

First personal experience with a Super-8 camera manually exposing film out of any light source.

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

Drawn again from footage shot in the Torrance Public Library parking lot, Introduction to Crack Sealing 3 remixes material from the first two films...

Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light...

An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

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

A lensless exploration of hair on 35mm film.

Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano...

Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project

Opening with a classic image of Chairman Mao spewing red star tears, this animation is a masterful example of Beckett’s distinctive technique...

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

Deluge is a 2010 post-apocalyptic short film directed by Australian musician Lulu Collard.

A found footage film about a strange and mysterious movie production.

A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in...

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon.

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.