Abstract Movies

An abstract film on the music 'Unfinished' 8th Symphony, part 1, by Franz Schubert by Oerd van Cuijlenborg

A man pays local children to bring him flies. After having cut off their wings and legs, he sticks them on the walls of his apartment. When a...

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music...

Quiet reflections at the end of the season.

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

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...

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...

A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made...

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

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

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

An abstract, experimental, personal reappraisal of experiences and crises - the project was the result of an experiment.

A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.

The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence.

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

An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath.

The second film in the Phosphenes series.

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are...