Abstract Movies

Short experimental animation.

A man pays local children to bring him flies. After having cut off their wings and legs, he sticks them on the walls of his apartment. When a...

The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the...

An abstract mood piece that aims to cultivate existential anxiety, exploring the shape and purpose of both man-made and natural objects, while...

Everyday states of being and decay are observed through the infinite scope of the cosmos and the restorative light which emanates from it, driving...

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

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

Upset with where his life has gone, Torgo seeks to make some changes

Sketch Film #3 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2006, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA/Japan) The third film in the series, which starts with a...

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

A man comes home at night and is attacked by a bottle.

A boy dreams about a girl who he is in love with.

A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously.

A short film about the abstract processes of light becoming a physical form in the landscape.

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

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...

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

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide...

A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more...