Abstract Movies

  • 2016
    Crab Day

    Crab Day

    Crab Day

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    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...

    Crab Day
  • 2012
    Scope

    Scope

    Scope

    02012HD

    This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue

    Scope
  • 2023
    Leda + Swans

    Leda + Swans

    Leda + Swans

    02023HD

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

    Leda + Swans
  • 1953
    Things to Come

    Things to Come

    Things to Come

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

    Things to Come
  • 1959
    Odds & Ends

    Odds & Ends

    Odds & Ends

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    Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory,...

    Odds & Ends
  • 2012
    Before Before

    Before Before

    Before Before

    02012HD

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

    Before Before
  • 2022
    Woman Is My Last Name

    Woman Is My Last Name

    Woman Is My Last Name

    02022HD

    This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

    Woman Is My Last Name
  • 2025
    Shapeless Variations

    Shapeless Variations

    Shapeless Variations

    02025HD

    A condensation of a handful of sunsets with various visual moods. Red and blue as opposites that still find a way to cohere. Concrete silhouettes...

    Shapeless Variations
  • 1968
    Momentum

    Momentum

    Momentum

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    "Momentum is Belson's most serene and gentle film since Allures. This treatment of the sun as an almost dreamlike hallucinatory experience is both...

    Momentum
  • 1989
    Cyclops

    Cyclops

    Cyclops

    01989HD

    The strange transformation of a surveillance camera.

    Cyclops
  • 1989
    Graffiti

    Graffiti

    Graffiti

    01989HD

    A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....

    Graffiti
  • 1966
    EMS nr 1

    EMS nr 1

    EMS nr 1

    01966HD

    An abstract audiovisual poem by electronic musician and composer Ralph Lundsten.

    EMS nr 1
  • 2024
    Lost Then Found

    Lost Then Found

    Lost Then Found

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    A young girl's odyssey intertwines with a luminescent guide, casting light on her path through life.

    Lost Then Found
  • 1978
    Impasse

    Impasse

    Impasse

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    A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by...

    Impasse
  • 1985
    Calculated Movements

    Calculated Movements

    Calculated Movements

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    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...

    Calculated Movements
  • 2017
    140 Characters

    140 Characters

    140 Characters

    02017HD

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

    140 Characters
  • 1989
    Physical Sculpture

    Physical Sculpture

    Physical Sculpture

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    A sculptor models a face with boxing gloves.

    Physical Sculpture
  • 2025
    Cygnus A

    Cygnus A

    Cygnus A

    02025HD

    Abstract experimental film by Ignacio Mardones

    Cygnus A
  • 2012
    Thinking Dot

    Thinking Dot

    Thinking Dot

    02012HD

    This work is a consideration of the vision expressed by "dot".

    Thinking Dot
  • 1937
    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

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    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...

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)