Abstract Movies

C+M, for YK. Subtractive colour blending is used in an attempt to conjure Yves Klein's 'L'accord bleu (RE 10)', 1960. The limitations imposed by...

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...

Born blind, an individual gains sight through surgery. Thus begins a visual encounter — the first of their life.

Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by...

Animation short by Alina Maliszewska.

A short film released alongside AFI's 2003 album Sing The Sorrow. The four members of AFI search to obtain a mysterious box that bears a resemblance...

An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or...

Serenade is a milestone in the history of dance. It is the first original ballet George Balanchine created in America in 1934, and is one of the...

[The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity of...

An abstract and tense short exploring the inner and outer body via the use of various types of plants.

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...

A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials...

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

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music...

In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are...