Abstract Movies

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

An abstract short film about an alien invasion.

Drawn again from footage shot in the Torrance Public Library parking lot, Introduction to Crack Sealing 3 remixes material from the first two films...

Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano...

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

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music

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...

In his film #43, Joost Rekveld observes what happens to a system that is destabilised by ‘creative' pixels, drawing inspiration from the set of...

A visual album made to accompany the EP of the same name by I.L.L.

A journey through the night and the day, the natural and the unnatural, accompanied by a brief poem and solitary sounds of an electric piano. First...

Life in the Atom was never completed, but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a...

A study of our temporal relationship with natural spaces and the memories they hold; questioning if humanity and nature resides in the same...

A young man on the brink of irrevocable despair crosses paths with a mysterious messenger, who warns him that his future is in danger and urges him...

Three men enter a decrepit room to play a game of Russian Roulette. One of the bullets is special and can fulfill their deepest desires. However,...

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...

The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The...

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

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

When the world casts an iron tie for you, one that doesn't quite fit or feel right: Is it possible to dream of freedom?

The weird hand creatures undergo different transformations in synchrony with the music.