Abstract Movies

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...

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

A man pays local children to bring him flies. After having cut off their wings and legs, he sticks them on the walls of his apartment. When a...

A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by...

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

Joost Rekveld's first film is an hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day and links this to how film is a medium that...

Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project

A person living in Liberty City goes to work, have some food & gets back home.

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

A painter with artist's block is sent on a disorienting journey after a mysterious painting appears in his home.

A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in...

Short film about the inability to sleep, or to remain asleep throughout the night.

A blind man stumbles about in a desert before his seeing stick is caught in a bear trap. Crawling, he manages to find a waiting line composed of the...

A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....

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

A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made...

The strange transformation of a surveillance camera.

Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation from Run Wrake and Howie B.

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...