Abstract Movies

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she...

Abstract animation

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

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...

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

The world shifts subtly while silent watchers already understand.

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

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...

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...

A Dream... is an abstract, horror piece that explores the subconscious mind of modern, western man, touching on cultural guilt, self deception, and...

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

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...

Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak...

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...

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...

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

A lensless exploration of hair on 35mm film.