Abstract Movies

A short animation about identity.

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 experimental film by Ignacio Mardones

An abstract horror artefact conceptualising trans doubt and dysphoria as a physically invasive force - a virus....

Lulu the dog gets a job at the local convenience store and stays up all night cleaning the back room. Short created for Adult Swim Smalls.

A person living in Liberty City goes to work, have some food & gets back home.

Thirty-six layers of water aligned to create a perfect circle. 1 of 2

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

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

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...

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.

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

Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano...

Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes.

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...

A nematic painting of sleep.

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...

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...