Abstract Movies

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 tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into...

A knight has second thoughts before the coronation of a new king.

In an alternate universe, the dinosaurs have roared one too many times before the asteroid hits Earth. The consequences that follow could be...

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

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...

Water, fire and oil mix into an anxious premonition read across the surface of an eye, a pond and an expressway. Filmed in Los Angeles, San Francisco...

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

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

An abstract audiovisual poem by electronic musician and composer Ralph Lundsten.

Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals...

An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

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...

A colourful "fountain performance".

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.

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

Using century old technology, PXXXL creates digital glitch from analog process. It was animated directly on the celluloid without a camera, in a...

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

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath.