Abstract Movies

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...

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...

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

"An exciting experiment in the tradition of Oskar Fischinger (Komposition in Blau, 1935), Dwinell Grant (Composition No. 1, 1940) and Slavko...

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

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

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leather,...

A ghost follows its non-existent shadow across a series of windows that gives light but no direction. As the ghost moves, a poem is read that serves...

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...

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon.

A short, abstract look at the effects of repetition on the human mind.

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

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

The weird hand creatures undergo different transformations in synchrony with the music.

Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home.

An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering...

A Sense Of Place is a short film made with scanned images of transparent Adhesive Sticky Tape. The traces, marks, and imprints left on the tape were...

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.