Abstract Movies

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

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

Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory,...

Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the...

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

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

Director River Roest sees Lil' Guys as an exploration of his love for animation, the exhaustion it can cause, and ultimately, the joy it brings. In...

Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation draws the eye down to the small gate of the camera. From there, through quivering and percussive forms of...

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

Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in...

An abstract exploration of memory and loss.

Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home.

A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes. An abstract film drawn directly on the computer.

The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The...

At dusk, an observer captures an absurd phenomenon.

Chicago streets.

Abstract short.

An attempt at “total art” performed during the 2020 lockdown.

This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue