Abstract Movies

  • 1980
    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

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    Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
  • 2026
    Are You Human?

    Are You Human?

    Are You Human?

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    On a mysterious game show a young woman is forced to prove herself more human than her competitor.

    Are You Human?
  • 1995
    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava

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    The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

    Casa de Lava
  • 1999
    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

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    At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
  • 1979
    Two Space

    Two Space

    Two Space

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    Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the...

    Two Space
  • 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
  • 2025
    Live At Lightspace, Leeds 11-09-25

    Live At Lightspace, Leeds 11-09-25

    Live At Lightspace, Leeds 11-09-25

    02025HD

    An official bootleg of Shearling's 2025 European tour live at Lightspace, Leeds (September 11th), recorded by The Factory Roof (Annya McCabe).

    Live At Lightspace, Leeds 11-09-25
  • 2023
    Mensbeeld

    Mensbeeld

    Mensbeeld

    02023HD

    mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human....

    Mensbeeld
  • 2022
    Thine Own Self

    Thine Own Self

    Thine Own Self

    02022HD

    Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

    Thine Own Self
  • 1940
    Tarantella

    Tarantella

    Tarantella

    5.91940HD

    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...

    Tarantella
  • 2014
    Blue Movie

    Blue Movie

    Blue Movie

    02014HD

    C+M, for YK. Subtractive colour blending is used in an attempt to conjure Yves Klein's 'L'accord bleu (RE 10)', 1960. The limitations imposed by...

    Blue Movie
  • 1956
    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    5.81956HD

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

    No. 11: Mirror Animations
  • 2019
    Attachment

    Attachment

    Attachment

    02019HD

    Attachment is an experimental, abstract short film about the attachment between the self and other from a marxist perspective, exploring how the...

    Attachment
  • 2012
    Shift

    Shift

    Shift

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    An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or...

    Shift
  • 2026
    Europa Too

    Europa Too

    Europa Too

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    Europa Too
  • 1938
    Ideas in Search of Light

    Ideas in Search of Light

    Ideas in Search of Light

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    Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife,...

    Ideas in Search of Light
  • 2016
    Dimensions

    Dimensions

    Dimensions

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    A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns....

    Dimensions
  • 2026
    Demain me tue

    Demain me tue

    Demain me tue

    02026HD

    A disillusioned young man enjoys the beauty of the last minutes before Tomorrow.

    Demain me tue
  • 2012
    Alone with the Moon

    Alone with the Moon

    Alone with the Moon

    02012HD

    Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendo-ing in time with Christopher...

    Alone with the Moon
  • 1974
    Flesh Flows

    Flesh Flows

    Flesh Flows

    01974HD

    In Flesh Flows we see a balance of Beckett’s keen drawing ability, in the probing erotic forms, and his technical acuity, which transforms the...

    Flesh Flows