Abstract Movies

A description of some parts of the world - explored, visited, documented, imagined. An abstract attempt at finding them again. The title refers to...

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...

Experiment by Lex Barrett.

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense....

Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

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...

At dusk, an observer captures an absurd phenomenon.

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon.

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

The function of the wrestler is not to win. It is to go through the motions that are expected of him.

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,...

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

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials...

He needs to be helped out.

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...

Claire is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of a series of three ink-on-paper artworks created in 2012 by French-Spanish researcher, publisher...