Abstract Movies

Bizarre abstract stop-motion animation questioning traditional values in a period of great social upheaval.

Rubin chats with two friends.

Abiogenesis within machinery. New life begins and strives - before being cut short.

A boy dreams about a girl who he is in love with.

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

The English version of Yoshinao Satoh's previous film "Papers", an abstract animation assembled from newspapers.

Drawn again from footage shot in the Torrance Public Library parking lot, Introduction to Crack Sealing 3 remixes material from the first two films...

A symphonic film about neighborhoods and roads.

A Experimental Docu-Drama about the Red Army Faction's formation, and events leading up to their imprisonment and death, from 1970 to 1977.

A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by...

An abstract film, with which Pansini attempted "Malevichean" reduction. It is a blank, an empty film reel with coloristic and toned global changes,...

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation...

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...

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

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

A computer program named A.D.O.M tries to create a living being that will help to release both of them from their void. This film was created...

Two rocky creatures coming to life and their journey through it.

A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree.