Abstract Movies

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

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 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...

An abstract short film about an alien invasion.

A short animation about identity.

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

A condensation of a handful of sunsets with various visual moods. Red and blue as opposites that still find a way to cohere. Concrete silhouettes...

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.

A Man Walking Backwards and Forwards.

Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.

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...

Fleshworm Dreams is a trippy, kaleidoscopic visual experience that pairs with an abstract, experimental nature record. Think of it like looking...

Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals...

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...

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell.

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Mindy suspects that her ex is up to no good.

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

A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.