Abstract Movies

In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Adam...

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no...

Rubin chats with two friends.

A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital.

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

A study of water and fire.

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...

A man comes home at night and is attacked by a bottle.

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

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.

A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes. An abstract film drawn directly on the computer.

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

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

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

A collage hosted by "The Pointless", a dying overlord.

A hand animated film that is a precursor for Belson’s later work

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

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

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.