Abstract Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

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...

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and...

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

Attachment is an experimental, abstract short film about the attachment between the self and other from a marxist perspective, exploring how the...

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

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

A disillusioned young man enjoys the beauty of the last minutes before Tomorrow.

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

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...

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.