Abstract Movies

Two brothers move silently through the mundane world, carrying an unseen offering of light. As they journey from place to place, dancing and...

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...

The Tokyo Tower and the window transform themselves into the characters, and roam in the night of Tokyo.

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

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and...

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...

Crab Day is a short film made to accompany Cate Le Bon’s eponymous album, released on April 15, 2016 via Turnstile. Directed by Phil Collins...

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

Three men enter a decrepit room to play a game of Russian Roulette. One of the bullets is special and can fulfill their deepest desires. However,...

An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or...

Flash projection from dutch visual artist Han Hoggerbrugge

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

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

A doll acquires consciousness and embarks on an introspection of the self.

Inefficient Joy is an experimental ski film that explores the paradox of devoting so much time and energy to something as fleeting as the moments we...

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

The guests are just like us: people who carry the burden of existing. Throughout nine episodes, partners (couples, friends, relatives) will sit next...

A young woman considers her relationship with her father