Abstract Movies

Quiet reflections at the end of the season.

"An exciting experiment in the tradition of Oskar Fischinger (Komposition in Blau, 1935), Dwinell Grant (Composition No. 1, 1940) and Slavko...

A teenager is trapped in an anomalous realm with no way out, as if there is no flow of life. Everything goes strangely and incomprehensibly.

Exhausted hands struggling to reach the finish line.

A short film about the abstract processes of light becoming a physical form in the landscape.

Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied...

Upset with where his life has gone, Torgo seeks to make some changes

"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she...

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

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...

Short film about the inability to sleep, or to remain asleep throughout the night.

Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao

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

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

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

Thirty-six layers of water aligned to create a perfect circle. 1 of 2

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

A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music

A Dream... is an abstract, horror piece that explores the subconscious mind of modern, western man, touching on cultural guilt, self deception, and...