Abstract Movies

Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water,...

Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory,...

An abstract exploration of memory and loss.

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

A knight has second thoughts before the coronation of a new king.

Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied...

The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence.

Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage of abstract images that illustrate the neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan. TAV is located...

[The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity of...

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

A swarm of forms, reminiscent of alien spaceships or mechanical bats suspended in space.

Another example of Detheux’s enchanting work, this year deepened by some outstanding live performance experiences.

A sequence of hand-drawn experiments. Constants: visualist, technology, run time. Independent variables: musician, drawing materials, theme. ...

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside...

Global in scope but intimate in spirit, Simon Liu's Fallen Arches is a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and...

From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life in this experimental visual music film.

Joost Rekveld's first film is an hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day and links this to how film is a medium that...

The mutating forms of Tensai Banpaku, or “Genius Expo” create a stunning abstract orchestra.

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as...

Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation draws the eye down to the small gate of the camera. From there, through quivering and percussive forms of...