Abstract Movies

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

The weird hand creatures undergo different transformations in synchrony with the music.

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

Opening with a classic image of Chairman Mao spewing red star tears, this animation is a masterful example of Beckett’s distinctive technique...

In his film #43, Joost Rekveld observes what happens to a system that is destabilised by ‘creative' pixels, drawing inspiration from the set of...

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

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between...

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

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

Abstract animation

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide...

In this silent short film, we follow three stories grappling with grief. As the characters within these stories take action and process their...

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

Deluge is a 2010 post-apocalyptic short film directed by Australian musician Lulu Collard.

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

The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence.

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

Trapped in a torture room, Derrick must find a way to escape, but when certain truths are uncovered, chaos ensues, and the cookies begin to crumble.