Abstract Movies

  • 1975
    Perspectrum

    Perspectrum

    Perspectrum

    01975HD

    In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and re-form to the sound of the koto, a 13-stringed...

    Perspectrum
  • 2005
    Trip!-Trap!

    Trip!-Trap!

    Trip!-Trap!

    22005HD

    In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light. An expression of a chaotic world. This...

    Trip!-Trap!
  • 2021
    Domingo no Asfalto

    Domingo no Asfalto

    Domingo no Asfalto

    02021HD

    An abstract journey through the unconscious in transition of a protagonist stretched out on the asphalt, on a Sunday

    Domingo no Asfalto
  • 2025
    Serlasanha

    Serlasanha

    Serlasanha

    02025HD

    Serlasanha
  • 2015
    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    72015HD

    "3D Video SBS (side by side) format. For viewing on 3D monitor or television" -Le Grice

    Marking Time
  • 2017
    Ramusiana

    Ramusiana

    Ramusiana

    102017HD

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

    Ramusiana
  • 2023
    Mensbeeld

    Mensbeeld

    Mensbeeld

    02023HD

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

    Mensbeeld
  • 1965
    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    7.31965HD

    Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
  • 1952
    Color Cry

    Color Cry

    Color Cry

    5.61952HD

    In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he...

    Color Cry
  • 2023
    Green

    Green

    Green

    02023HD

    An abstract and detailed observation of a young life told through a series of observational montages. Part of the 'Technicolour' series of films from...

    Green
  • 1970
    Knotte Grosse Loops

    Knotte Grosse Loops

    Knotte Grosse Loops

    01970HD

    These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent...

    Knotte Grosse Loops
  • 2009
    The Artifice

    The Artifice

    The Artifice

    102009HD

    An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.

    The Artifice
  • 1937
    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    71937HD

    To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is...

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)
  • 2010
    Mamori

    Mamori

    Mamori

    4.82010HD

    Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals...

    Mamori
  • 2021
    Glimpse

    Glimpse

    Glimpse

    02021HD

    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...

    Glimpse
  • 2025
    All Blurry Around the Open Flame

    All Blurry Around the Open Flame

    All Blurry Around the Open Flame

    02025HD

    A short film about the abstract processes of light becoming a physical form in the landscape.

    All Blurry Around the Open Flame
  • 2012
    Alone with the Moon

    Alone with the Moon

    Alone with the Moon

    02012HD

    Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendo-ing in time with Christopher...

    Alone with the Moon
  • 1958
    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals

    5.91958HD

    In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using...

    Free Radicals
  • 2013
    Newspaper

    Newspaper

    Newspaper

    82013HD

    Abstract animation by Yoshinao Satoh. This is an English version of the film "Papers".

    Newspaper
  • 1980
    Infinity

    Infinity

    Infinity

    61980HD

    A cosmic experimental film by Jordan Belson, set to music by Iasos.

    Infinity