Abstract Movies

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...

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy...

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using...

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

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining...

"Mouris’s film, YOU’RE NOT REAL PRETTY BUT YOU’RE MINE…, built upon the strongest elements of QUICK DREAM, and added a pop...

Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano...

A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, such a project was beyond technological...

Flash projection from dutch visual artist Han Hoggerbrugge

Jane Conger Belson Shimane's first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The...

Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama...

A person living in Liberty City goes to work, have some food & gets back home.

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

A man has a breakdown after losing his job and winning a bar fight.

An abstract short film about an alien invasion.

A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously.

On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of...