Abstract Movies

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the...

Abstract short.

A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue.

Sketch Film #5 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2007, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA) This is the last film in the series. I shot at the site of...

In stark contrast to video, "Hand Made" focuses on the grain of the celluloid and the organic nature of emulsion. It was created by contact printing...

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

An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors.

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

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler

This work is a consideration of the vision expressed by "dot".

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

Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a...

Water, fire and oil mix into an anxious premonition read across the surface of an eye, a pond and an expressway. Filmed in Los Angeles, San Francisco...

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

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

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...

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words.