Abstract Movies

  • 1973
    Squares

    Squares

    Squares

    01973HD

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

    Squares
  • 1989
    Graffiti

    Graffiti

    Graffiti

    01989HD

    A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....

    Graffiti
  • 2024
    for us, an essay

    for us, an essay

    for us, an essay

    02024HD

    How heavy is an emotional relationship in TRANSit? Giving love? Losing love? Having, in my chest, not only a heart but also longing? That's why I...

    for us, an essay
  • 1965
    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

    6.31965HD

    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...

    Early Abstractions
  • 2012
    Heart String Marionette

    Heart String Marionette

    Heart String Marionette

    52012HD

    A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into...

    Heart String Marionette
  • 2020
    Touch

    Touch

    Touch

    02020HD

    What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and...

    Touch
  • 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
  • 2019
    Details of Pollock's White Light

    Details of Pollock's White Light

    Details of Pollock's White Light

    02019HD

    Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

    Details of Pollock's White Light
  • 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
  • 2006
    Insomnia

    Insomnia

    Insomnia

    102006HD

    Short film about the inability to sleep, or to remain asleep throughout the night.

    Insomnia
  • 2012
    Chase

    Chase

    Chase

    02012HD

    An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath.

    Chase
  • 2025
    Keyhole Conversation

    Keyhole Conversation

    Keyhole Conversation

    02025HD

    Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation draws the eye down to the small gate of the camera. From there, through quivering and percussive forms of...

    Keyhole Conversation
  • 2007
    Corpora Vilia

    Corpora Vilia

    Corpora Vilia

    102007HD

    An abstract and tense short exploring the inner and outer body via the use of various types of plants.

    Corpora Vilia
  • 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
  • 2013
    Barcode III.0

    Barcode III.0

    Barcode III.0

    62013HD

    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...

    Barcode III.0
  • 2024
    Mildew

    Mildew

    Mildew

    02024HD

    'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while...

    Mildew
  • 2023
    Brute

    Brute

    Brute

    102023HD

    A man has a breakdown after losing his job and winning a bar fight.

    Brute
  • 1999
    Bloodlust

    Bloodlust

    Bloodlust

    81999HD

    An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which...

    Bloodlust
  • 1952
    Color Cry

    Color Cry

    Color Cry

    61952HD

    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...

    Color Cry
  • 2017
    Ramusiana

    Ramusiana

    Ramusiana

    102017HD

    A description of some parts of the world - explored, visited, documented, imagined. An abstract attempt at finding them again. The title refers to...

    Ramusiana