Abstract Movies

Polish avant-garde animation with changing colors and shapes that suggest birth followed by heavy distortion and building to a face in the swamp.

With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged, epilepsy-inducing sound and vision;...

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...

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement]...

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker...

Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre Cantu Ledesma.

Sketch Film #5 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2007, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA) This is the last film in the series. I shot at the site of...

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

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

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

A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made...

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in...

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

Short experimental animation.

Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation draws the eye down to the small gate of the camera. From there, through quivering and percussive forms of...

The second film in the Phosphenes series.

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.

Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in...

Coping Strategies is a stop-motion animation created from the screen prints of Ellie Honel