Abstract Movies

C+M, for YK. Subtractive colour blending is used in an attempt to conjure Yves Klein's 'L'accord bleu (RE 10)', 1960. The limitations imposed by...

Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and...

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

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...

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

With a rushing smear, a cyclist begins his race.

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...

An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"

A visual album made to accompany the EP of the same name by I.L.L.

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

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for...

Opening with a classic image of Chairman Mao spewing red star tears, this animation is a masterful example of Beckett’s distinctive technique...

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

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

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

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...

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