Abstract Movies

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

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...

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 doll acquires consciousness and embarks on an introspection of the self.

Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame.

Disturbed by an irrational aversion to his house owner's unsettling left eye, man contemplates murder to escape the disturbing presence and restore...

#23.2 Book of Mirrors deals with the multiplication of light beams through mirrors and kaleidoscopes.

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation...

What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and...

Polish avant-garde animation with changing colors and shapes that suggest birth followed by heavy distortion and building to a face in the swamp.

A description of some parts of the world - explored, visited, documented, imagined. An abstract attempt at finding them again. The title refers to...

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

An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

The world shifts subtly while silent watchers already understand.

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

A young man from Toronto, struggles with connecting with his culture, as he wishes to write and read his mother tongue. When his wish gets granted,...

A lensless exploration of hair on 35mm film.

A young filmmaker goes on a surreal journey that blurs reality in order to film the perfect scene.

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...