Abstract Movies

A tactile, layered animation in paint improvised in response to Andrew Schultz’s work for bassoon and piano.

An anxiety inducing exploration of juicy colors and crunchy textures driven by chaotic electronic music.

A virtual sky awash with a digital aurora.

"An exciting experiment in the tradition of Oskar Fischinger (Komposition in Blau, 1935), Dwinell Grant (Composition No. 1, 1940) and Slavko...

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside...

From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life in this experimental visual music film.

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

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

Sketch Film #3 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2006, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA/Japan) The third film in the series, which starts with a...

Joost Rekveld's first film is an hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day and links this to how film is a medium that...

Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light...

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

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...

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

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...

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

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...

Hand-drawn animation tests, trials and experiments from way back when, with some water color, cut into a sweet. little. diddle. diddy. biddy. beep...

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