Abstract Movies

An expression of time and memories.

Coping Strategies is a stop-motion animation created from the screen prints of Ellie Honel

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.

Chicago streets.

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between...

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using...

Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

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...

From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life in this experimental visual music film.

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force.

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

The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2008.After returning to Japan, I soon began making...

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is...

The strange transformation of a surveillance camera.

A collage hosted by "The Pointless", a dying overlord.

Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water,...

Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.

A nematic painting of sleep.

Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a...

Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife,...