Abstract Movies

  • 2023
    Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff

    Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff

    Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff

    102023HD

    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.

    Gassy's Gas 'n Stuff
  • 1970
    inefficient joy_

    inefficient joy_

    inefficient joy_

    01970HD

    Inefficient Joy is an experimental ski film that explores the paradox of devoting so much time and energy to something as fleeting as the moments we...

    inefficient joy_
  • 1978
    Enigma: Nazo

    Enigma: Nazo

    Enigma: Nazo

    6.51978HD

    Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and...

    Enigma: Nazo
  • 1970
    Close-Up: an oddyssey

    Close-Up: an oddyssey

    Close-Up: an oddyssey

    101970HD

    Aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel in this...

    Close-Up: an oddyssey
  • 2017
    On Generation and Corruption

    On Generation and Corruption

    On Generation and Corruption

    62017HD

    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...

    On Generation and Corruption
  • 1961
    Drums West

    Drums West

    Drums West

    7.21961HD

    This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the...

    Drums West
  • 1990
    Anyway

    Anyway

    Anyway

    8.51990HD

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

    Anyway
  • 1999
    Jazzimation

    Jazzimation

    Jazzimation

    01999HD

    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.

    Jazzimation
  • 1970
    Santa Inocencia

    Santa Inocencia

    Santa Inocencia

    101970HD

    Santa Inocencia
  • 2020
    Boy Waits

    Boy Waits

    Boy Waits

    02020HD

    A boy waits in the same street every day with his bags packed. What is he waiting for?

    Boy Waits
  • 2026
    Unearthly

    Unearthly

    Unearthly

    02026HD

    Two brothers move silently through the mundane world, carrying an unseen offering of light. As they journey from place to place, dancing and...

    Unearthly
  • 2015
    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    72015HD

    "3D Video SBS (side by side) format. For viewing on 3D monitor or television" -Le Grice

    Marking Time
  • 2018
    Kaparamip

    Kaparamip

    Kaparamip

    02018HD

    Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

    Kaparamip
  • 1974
    Fuji

    Fuji

    Fuji

    5.71974HD

    A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

    Fuji
  • 2015
    cinéma concret

    cinéma concret

    cinéma concret

    6.52015HD

    Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that...

    cinéma concret
  • 2016
    Crab Day

    Crab Day

    Crab Day

    02016HD

    Crab Day is a short film made to accompany Cate Le Bon’s eponymous album, released on April 15, 2016 via Turnstile. Directed by Phil Collins...

    Crab Day
  • 2001
    The Dowager's Idyll

    The Dowager's Idyll

    The Dowager's Idyll

    02001HD

    2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

    The Dowager's Idyll
  • 1965
    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    7.31965HD

    Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
  • 2026
    An Island

    An Island

    An Island

    62026HD

    New experimental short from James Fotopoulos.

    An Island
  • 1989
    Cyclops

    Cyclops

    Cyclops

    01989HD

    The strange transformation of a surveillance camera.

    Cyclops