Abstract Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

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

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.

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...

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

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