Abstract Movies

Animation short by Alina Maliszewska.

After Billy finds a winning scratch ticket, the gas station gets a new lottery machine that becomes the talk of the town. Part of [adult swim] smalls...

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation...

A young filmmaker goes on a surreal journey that blurs reality in order to film the perfect scene.

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to...

In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are...

Abstract animation

Coping Strategies is a stop-motion animation created from the screen prints of Ellie Honel

Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied...

Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation draws the eye down to the small gate of the camera. From there, through quivering and percussive forms of...

A sculptor models a face with boxing gloves.

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

A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.

Quiet reflections at the end of the season.

MASK is a short film from Escape the Wolf Productions

Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the...

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is...

An abstract film on the music 'Unfinished' 8th Symphony, part 1, by Franz Schubert by Oerd van Cuijlenborg

High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.