Abstract Movies

A strong laserbeam is deflected by two mirrors oscillating at very high speeds. The human eye perceives a stable image as long as they move fast...

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

The strange transformation of a surveillance camera.

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

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between...

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...

A condensation of a handful of sunsets with various visual moods. Red and blue as opposites that still find a way to cohere. Concrete silhouettes...

In this silent short film, we follow three stories grappling with grief. As the characters within these stories take action and process their...

A young girl's odyssey intertwines with a luminescent guide, casting light on her path through life.

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa

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

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

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

A couple are watching television together. Over time, the shows become more bizarre: a news report about the arrest of two terrorists reveals they...

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.

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation...

An expression of time and memories.

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

A categorical accumulation of abstract patterns. Lines, colours and sounds obey an impenetrable logic. A quiet film that dares to be resolutely...