Abstract Movies

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

Mindy suspects that her ex is up to no good.

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

An abstract and tense short exploring the inner and outer body via the use of various types of plants.

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

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

Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation from Run Wrake and Howie B.

Silent Breaths Beneath Electric Glow is an evocative exploration of beauty and solitude, set entirely within a neon-lit aquarium. Through mesmerizing...

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

A person living in Liberty City goes to work, have some food & gets back home.

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

A study of water and fire.

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

Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes.

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

Deluge is a 2010 post-apocalyptic short film directed by Australian musician Lulu Collard.

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