Abstract Movies

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

A ghost follows its non-existent shadow across a series of windows that gives light but no direction. As the ghost moves, a poem is read that serves...

He needs to be helped out.

The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which...

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"

Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama...

One day, one moment, there the forest has its own time. The place without meridian. The empty place. The place without human. The place has been...

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

mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human....

An abstract short film about an alien invasion.

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

An abstract film on the music 'Unfinished' 8th Symphony, part 1, by Franz Schubert by Oerd van Cuijlenborg

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

abstract short

Trapped in a torture room, Derrick must find a way to escape, but when certain truths are uncovered, chaos ensues, and the cookies begin to crumble.

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation...

A disillusioned young man enjoys the beauty of the last minutes before Tomorrow.

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

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...