Abstract Movies

A study of our temporal relationship with natural spaces and the memories they hold; questioning if humanity and nature resides in the same...

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he...

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

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

Global in scope but intimate in spirit, Simon Liu's Fallen Arches is a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and...

Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife,...

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

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...

Claire is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of a series of three ink-on-paper artworks created in 2012 by French-Spanish researcher, publisher...

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

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

Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light...

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching...

Life in the Atom was never completed, but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a...

A colourful "fountain performance".

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.

Deluge is a 2010 post-apocalyptic short film directed by Australian musician Lulu Collard.

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

A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by...