Abstract Movies

  • 1979
    Roman Numeral: I

    Roman Numeral: I

    Roman Numeral: I

    6.51979HD

    An attempt to conjure pictorially, from the mind, an image that isn't referential: "...I'd like to give something back, not a picture of a flower,...

    Roman Numeral: I
  • 2012
    The Extravagant Shadows

    The Extravagant Shadows

    The Extravagant Shadows

    52012HD

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

    The Extravagant Shadows
  • 2000
    Scratch

    Scratch

    Scratch

    02000HD

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

    Scratch
  • 2019
    Deep Blue And Dirty

    Deep Blue And Dirty

    Deep Blue And Dirty

    02019HD

    A tactile, layered animation in paint improvised in response to Andrew Schultz’s work for bassoon and piano.

    Deep Blue And Dirty
  • 2019
    Remote Life Drawings

    Remote Life Drawings

    Remote Life Drawings

    92019HD

    Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage of abstract images that illustrate the neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan. TAV is located...

    Remote Life Drawings
  • 2017
    #57

    #57

    #57

    62017HD

    A categorical accumulation of abstract patterns. Lines, colours and sounds obey an impenetrable logic. A quiet film that dares to be resolutely...

    #57
  • 1980
    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    6.31980HD

    Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
  • 2021
    Time in a Grain of Sand

    Time in a Grain of Sand

    Time in a Grain of Sand

    02021HD

    An expression of time and memories.

    Time in a Grain of Sand
  • 2015
    Disporting with a Shadow

    Disporting with a Shadow

    Disporting with a Shadow

    62015HD

    Water, fire and oil mix into an anxious premonition read across the surface of an eye, a pond and an expressway. Filmed in Los Angeles, San Francisco...

    Disporting with a Shadow
  • 2025
    Garden Story

    Garden Story

    Garden Story

    02025HD

    Presented in an abstract, non-sequential fashion, it tells the story of a filmmaker's growing frustration as he attempts to make a movie about his...

    Garden Story
  • 1970
    Disabuse

    Disabuse

    Disabuse

    01970HD

    Abstract short.

    Disabuse
  • 2023
    Liminal II

    Liminal II

    Liminal II

    02023HD

    In the smallest hour, a Crepuscus Tree beckons another unknowing wanderer.

    Liminal II
  • 2001
    Mind Your Own Business

    Mind Your Own Business

    Mind Your Own Business

    02001HD

    Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

    Mind Your Own Business
  • 1984
    Rectangle & Rectangles

    Rectangle & Rectangles

    Rectangle & Rectangles

    01984HD

    This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker...

    Rectangle & Rectangles
  • 2024
    Mildew

    Mildew

    Mildew

    02024HD

    'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while...

    Mildew
  • 1977
    Wet Paint

    Wet Paint

    Wet Paint

    81977HD

    [The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity of...

    Wet Paint
  • 2021
    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

    02021HD

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

    Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts
  • 2020
    François Couperin. The Alarm Clock

    François Couperin. The Alarm Clock

    François Couperin. The Alarm Clock

    02020HD

    From the film-almanac on musical works of classics for children "Children's Album". A little film about genesis.

    François Couperin. The Alarm Clock
  • 1959
    High Voltage

    High Voltage

    High Voltage

    51959HD

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

    High Voltage
  • 1979
    Two Space

    Two Space

    Two Space

    01979HD

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

    Two Space