Abstract Movies

With a rushing smear, a cyclist begins his race.

First personal experience with a Super-8 camera manually exposing film out of any light source.

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

An official bootleg of Shearling's 2025 European tour live at Lightspace, Leeds (September 11th), recorded by The Factory Roof (Annya McCabe).

An abstract and detailed observation of a young life told through a series of observational montages. Part of the 'Technicolour' series of films from...

Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.

A man is horribly tortured by another who wants him to reveal where his girlfriend is hiding.

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

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

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

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

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...

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which...

An abstract short film that sheds light on the bad habits of the society in which we evolve, but in a dark satiric & cynical way.

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...

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the...

In his film #43, Joost Rekveld observes what happens to a system that is destabilised by ‘creative' pixels, drawing inspiration from the set of...