Abstract Movies

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore.

Students walk into a photography studio to have their photograph taken, and put on a smile for the picture. But as soon as the camera flashes, it...

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...

Frankie lies. Frankie remembers an unfortunate event from his past and how it spiralled into the state he’s in now, with a little help from an...

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy...

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining...

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

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...

Lulu the dog gets a job at the local convenience store and stays up all night cleaning the back room. Short created for Adult Swim Smalls.

What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and...

Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

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

The strange transformation of a surveillance camera.

Presented in an abstract, non-sequential fashion, it tells the story of a filmmaker's growing frustration as he attempts to make a movie about his...

A colourful "fountain performance".

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

Ki-No-Ko is a surreal five-minute short film published on Art of Silent Hill, Lost Memories: The Art & Music of Silent Hill and The Silent Hill...

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...

The second film in the Phosphenes series.