Abstract Movies

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...

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation...

Thirty-six layers of water aligned to create a perfect circle. 1 of 2

Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.

Designed for continuous single or multiple monitor display (as well as video projection), the tape is a collection of computer animated sequences of...

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

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...

A short, abstract look at the effects of repetition on the human mind.

Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.

'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while...

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...

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he...

A Experimental Docu-Drama about the Red Army Faction's formation, and events leading up to their imprisonment and death, from 1970 to 1977.

A short film about the abstract processes of light becoming a physical form in the landscape.

Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching...

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...

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,...

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and re-form to the sound of the koto, a 13-stringed...