Abstract Movies

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more...

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

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide...

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...

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

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

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

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...

Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a...

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...

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

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

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...

Everyday states of being and decay are observed through the infinite scope of the cosmos and the restorative light which emanates from it, driving...