Abstract Movies

A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes. An abstract film drawn directly on the computer.

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

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

A short, abstract look at the effects of repetition on the human mind.

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

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

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.

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...

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as...

Serenade is a milestone in the history of dance. It is the first original ballet George Balanchine created in America in 1934, and is one of the...

An series of monologues surrounding the human desire to understand and label, positioned within the contexts and abstracted aesthetics of our modern...

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials...

A study of our temporal relationship with natural spaces and the memories they hold; questioning if humanity and nature resides in the same...

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

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...

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

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...

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

"3D Video SBS (side by side) format. For viewing on 3D monitor or television" -Le Grice