Abstract Movies

MASK is a short film from Escape the Wolf Productions

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

A boy waits in the same street every day with his bags packed. What is he waiting for?

An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

A Dream... is an abstract, horror piece that explores the subconscious mind of modern, western man, touching on cultural guilt, self deception, and...

The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence.

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement]...

The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped...

The strange transformation of a surveillance camera.

Chicago streets.

At dusk, an observer captures an absurd phenomenon.

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to...

An abstract mood piece that aims to cultivate existential anxiety, exploring the shape and purpose of both man-made and natural objects, while...

Upset with where his life has gone, Torgo seeks to make some changes

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...

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa

A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.