Abstract Movies

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...

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy...

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...

An abstract short film about an alien invasion.

An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering...

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

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

Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage of abstract images that illustrate the neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan. TAV is located...

Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence.

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she...

High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.

Joost Rekveld's first film is an hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day and links this to how film is a medium that...

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining...

A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously.

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside...

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...

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...