Abstract Movies

After Billy finds a winning scratch ticket, the gas station gets a new lottery machine that becomes the talk of the town. Part of [adult swim] smalls...

C+M, for YK. Subtractive colour blending is used in an attempt to conjure Yves Klein's 'L'accord bleu (RE 10)', 1960. The limitations imposed by...

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon.

Aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel in this...

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns....

In this silent short film, we follow three stories grappling with grief. As the characters within these stories take action and process their...

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

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

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...

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

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

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...

A Sense Of Place is a short film made with scanned images of transparent Adhesive Sticky Tape. The traces, marks, and imprints left on the tape were...

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...

A visual album made to accompany the EP of the same name by I.L.L.

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