Abstract Movies

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

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

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

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

How heavy is an emotional relationship in TRANSit? Giving love? Losing love? Having, in my chest, not only a heart but also longing? That's why I...

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is...

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

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

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide...

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and...

In a surreal journey of self-discovery, a man serving twins in a luxurious mansion confronts the unknown world hidden behind the conditioning. He...

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell.

The Tokyo Tower and the window transform themselves into the characters, and roam in the night of Tokyo.

The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence.

A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into...

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

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

Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a...