Abstract Movies

Chicago streets.

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

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between...

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

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining...

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

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

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...

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.

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

With a rushing smear, a cyclist begins his race.

An abstract and detailed observation of a young life told through a series of observational montages. Part of the 'Technicolour' series of films from...

Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he...

Follows a young girl appreciating her surroundings in her final moments before taking her life.

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and...

In the smallest hour, a Crepuscus Tree beckons another unknowing wanderer.

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.