Abstract Movies

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

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

Students walk into a photography studio to have their photograph taken, and put on a smile for the picture. But as soon as the camera flashes, it...

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

A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more...

Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

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...

"This is taking a Super 8mm camera around with me wherever I go and I'm very interested in windows at this time of travel, and I'm trying to make a...

mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human....

Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.

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

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...

Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

With a rushing smear, a cyclist begins his race.

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...

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside...

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...