Abstract Movies

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors.

Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force.

Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...

Flash projection from dutch visual artist Han Hoggerbrugge

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

Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao

Trapped between the frames of time.

At dusk, an observer captures an absurd phenomenon.

On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of...

An abstract animation with a motif of a dragonfly, and a complex multi-exposure landscape of a field and a woman's naked body overlap.

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...

In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light. An expression of a chaotic world. This...

mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human....

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

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 abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

An abstract, surreal and experimental anthology consisting of five sequences exploring the themes of identity, the nature of existence and the human...