Abstract Movies

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...

In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Adam...

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

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

The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence.

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music...

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

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...

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

Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

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...

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 cosmic experimental film by Jordan Belson, set to music by Iasos.

Using century old technology, PXXXL creates digital glitch from analog process. It was animated directly on the celluloid without a camera, in a...

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

An abstract animation with a motif of a dragonfly, and a complex multi-exposure landscape of a field and a woman's naked body overlap.

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

A Experimental Docu-Drama about the Red Army Faction's formation, and events leading up to their imprisonment and death, from 1970 to 1977.

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