Abstract Movies

A boy waits in the same street every day with his bags packed. What is he waiting for?

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

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...

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...

A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more...

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a...

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

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

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

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide...

Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water,...

Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation from Run Wrake and Howie B.

A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in...

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

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

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...

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...