Abstract Movies

Trapped between the frames of time.

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...

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

A short, abstract look at the effects of repetition on the human mind.

The screen is divided again and again until the picture arranged in ever changing strips bursts into whirring dynamic.

A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made...

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...

A psychedelic, polychromatic journey into the celestial and surreal.

In stark contrast to video, "Hand Made" focuses on the grain of the celluloid and the organic nature of emulsion. It was created by contact printing...

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

An abstract journey through the unconscious in transition of a protagonist stretched out on the asphalt, on a Sunday

A strong laserbeam is deflected by two mirrors oscillating at very high speeds. The human eye perceives a stable image as long as they move fast...

The dream of an undinal being.

An series of monologues surrounding the human desire to understand and label, positioned within the contexts and abstracted aesthetics of our modern...

Bizarre abstract stop-motion animation questioning traditional values in a period of great social upheaval.

With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged, epilepsy-inducing sound and vision;...

Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home.

A sculptor models a face with boxing gloves.

The function of the wrestler is not to win. It is to go through the motions that are expected of him.