Abstract Movies

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

In his film #43, Joost Rekveld observes what happens to a system that is destabilised by ‘creative' pixels, drawing inspiration from the set of...

An abstract short film that sheds light on the bad habits of the society in which we evolve, but in a dark satiric & cynical way.

A cosmic experimental film by Jordan Belson, set to music by Iasos.

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...

First personal experience with a Super-8 camera manually exposing film out of any light source.

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

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...

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

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...

"Momentum is Belson's most serene and gentle film since Allures. This treatment of the sun as an almost dreamlike hallucinatory experience is both...

A man is horribly tortured by another who wants him to reveal where his girlfriend is hiding.

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

Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation from Run Wrake and Howie B.

Deluge is a 2010 post-apocalyptic short film directed by Australian musician Lulu Collard.

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"