Abstract Movies

"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she...

High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

C+M, for YK. Subtractive colour blending is used in an attempt to conjure Yves Klein's 'L'accord bleu (RE 10)', 1960. The limitations imposed by...

The journey before the inevitable, the clock starts ticking, life begins and ends.

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

"This is taking a Super 8mm camera around with me wherever I go and I'm very interested in windows at this time of travel, and I'm trying to make a...

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

Exhausted hands struggling to reach the finish line.

In stark contrast to video, "Hand Made" focuses on the grain of the celluloid and the organic nature of emulsion. It was created by contact printing...

Silent Breaths Beneath Electric Glow is an evocative exploration of beauty and solitude, set entirely within a neon-lit aquarium. Through mesmerizing...

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

Rubin chats with two friends.

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

A couple are watching television together. Over time, the shows become more bizarre: a news report about the arrest of two terrorists reveals they...

A boy dreams about a girl who he is in love with.

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as...

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

Upset with where his life has gone, Torgo seeks to make some changes

A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously.