Abstract Movies

Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

In Flesh Flows we see a balance of Beckett’s keen drawing ability, in the probing erotic forms, and his technical acuity, which transforms the...

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.

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the...

Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense....

A teenage boy, Jimmy, goes through his day-to-day life, preparing for a school dance with his friends. Unexpectedly, a mysterious black hand slowly...

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

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 visualizer for Phoebe Bridgers' Copycat Killer EP, featuring four songs originally released on the Grammy-nominated album Punisher, with new...

A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.

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...

The function of the wrestler is not to win. It is to go through the motions that are expected of him.

Aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel in this...

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as...

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...

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

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

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon.

Amongst the contemplative static shots of decaying architecture weaves an abstract narrative unveiling the life-cycle of a higher perception, too...