Abstract Movies

An abstract horror artefact conceptualising trans doubt and dysphoria as a physically invasive force - a virus....

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.

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

Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a...

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

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

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...

Sketch Film #3 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2006, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA/Japan) The third film in the series, which starts with a...

From the film-almanac on musical works of classics for children "Children's Album". A little film about genesis.

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

A description of some parts of the world - explored, visited, documented, imagined. An abstract attempt at finding them again. The title refers to...

Exhausted hands struggling to reach the finish line.

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

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...

Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre Cantu Ledesma.

Polish avant-garde animation with changing colors and shapes that suggest birth followed by heavy distortion and building to a face in the swamp.

In stark contrast to video, "Hand Made" focuses on the grain of the celluloid and the organic nature of emulsion. It was created by contact printing...

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water,...

An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which...