Abstract Movies

A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.

In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Adam...

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

The strange transformation of a surveillance camera.

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

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

Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a...

Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.

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

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,...

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

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors.

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide...

A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more...

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

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she...

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...