Abstract Movies

Exhausted hands struggling to reach the finish line.

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

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...

Bored with her mundane life, aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer...

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...

A subway passenger suffers from hallucinations and sees the metro that he has just boarded accelerate and gain speed quickly.

Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao

The Stroke is a hand-drawn animation film that reverses the roles of audio and visuals for a music video. Improvised on its very first viewing, the...

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

Hand-drawn animation tests, trials and experiments from way back when, with some water color, cut into a sweet. little. diddle. diddy. biddy. beep...

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

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to...

In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light. An expression of a chaotic world. This...

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

An expression of time and memories.

A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in...

MASK is a short film from Escape the Wolf Productions

A strong laserbeam is deflected by two mirrors oscillating at very high speeds. The human eye perceives a stable image as long as they move fast...

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

A nematic painting of sleep.