Abstract Movies

  • 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
  • 1980
    Infinity

    Infinity

    Infinity

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    A cosmic experimental film by Jordan Belson, set to music by Iasos.

    Infinity
  • 2016
    Trans/Figure/Ground

    Trans/Figure/Ground

    Trans/Figure/Ground

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    A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital.

    Trans/Figure/Ground
  • 2024
    Monosyllabic

    Monosyllabic

    Monosyllabic

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    In an alternate universe, the dinosaurs have roared one too many times before the asteroid hits Earth. The consequences that follow could be...

    Monosyllabic
  • 2025
    the birth of the journey before death.

    the birth of the journey before death.

    the birth of the journey before death.

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    The journey before the inevitable, the clock starts ticking, life begins and ends.

    the birth of the journey before death.
  • 2020
    Boy Waits

    Boy Waits

    Boy Waits

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    A boy waits in the same street every day with his bags packed. What is he waiting for?

    Boy Waits
  • 2012
    La Costante di Archimede

    La Costante di Archimede

    La Costante di Archimede

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    La Costante di Archimede
  • 2012
    Down with the Dawn

    Down with the Dawn

    Down with the Dawn

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    Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation from Run Wrake and Howie B.

    Down with the Dawn
  • 1956
    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

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

    No. 11: Mirror Animations
  • 1970
    Elsa

    Elsa

    Elsa

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    Elsa
  • 2013
    Barcode III.0

    Barcode III.0

    Barcode III.0

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    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...

    Barcode III.0
  • 2014
    Autogenic

    Autogenic

    Autogenic

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    From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life in this experimental visual music film.

    Autogenic
  • 2015
    cinéma concret

    cinéma concret

    cinéma concret

    6.52015HD

    Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that...

    cinéma concret
  • 1975
    Zoopsie

    Zoopsie

    Zoopsie

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    Bizarre abstract stop-motion animation questioning traditional values in a period of great social upheaval.

    Zoopsie
  • 2025
    Dinosaur Farm

    Dinosaur Farm

    Dinosaur Farm

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    A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

    Dinosaur Farm
  • 2012
    Scope

    Scope

    Scope

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

    Scope
  • 2022
    Vert Torpeur

    Vert Torpeur

    Vert Torpeur

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    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.

    Vert Torpeur
  • 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
  • 2014
    Third Page from the Sun

    Third Page from the Sun

    Third Page from the Sun

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    Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has become obsolete by the digital dematerialization....

    Third Page from the Sun
  • 1957
    Logos

    Logos

    Logos

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    Jane Conger Belson Shimane's first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The...

    Logos