Abstract Movies

  • 2023
    Leda + Swans

    Leda + Swans

    Leda + Swans

    02023HD

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

    Leda + Swans
  • 2021
    Bird on the 27th Floor

    Bird on the 27th Floor

    Bird on the 27th Floor

    02021HD

    Gogu’s feelings living with his parents for the past 28 years and still being a (fat) jobless filmmaker.

    Bird on the 27th Floor
  • 1976
    Window

    Window

    Window

    31976HD

    "This is taking a Super 8mm camera around with me wherever I go and I'm very interested in windows at this time of travel, and I'm trying to make a...

    Window
  • 2018
    Tetarape

    Tetarape

    Tetarape

    02018HD

    Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

    Tetarape
  • 2001
    Bag

    Bag

    Bag

    02001HD

    袋 Fukuro (Japanese for "bag" or "sack") is a 3-minute short film from 2001. It features Pyramid Head and a Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2,...

    Bag
  • 1977
    Wet Paint

    Wet Paint

    Wet Paint

    81977HD

    [The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity of...

    Wet Paint
  • 2012
    PXXXL

    PXXXL

    PXXXL

    02012HD

    Using century old technology, PXXXL creates digital glitch from analog process. It was animated directly on the celluloid without a camera, in a...

    PXXXL
  • 2014
    TENSAI BANPAKU

    TENSAI BANPAKU

    TENSAI BANPAKU

    2.52014HD

    The mutating forms of Tensai Banpaku, or “Genius Expo” create a stunning abstract orchestra.

    TENSAI BANPAKU
  • 2021
    Hand

    Hand

    Hand

    02021HD

    The weird hand creatures undergo different transformations in synchrony with the music.

    Hand
  • 1967
    Everything Is a Number

    Everything Is a Number

    Everything Is a Number

    5.51967HD

    Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

    Everything Is a Number
  • 2001
    Mushroom

    Mushroom

    Mushroom

    52001HD

    Ki-No-Ko is a surreal five-minute short film published on Art of Silent Hill, Lost Memories: The Art & Music of Silent Hill and The Silent Hill...

    Mushroom
  • 1975
    Perspectrum

    Perspectrum

    Perspectrum

    01975HD

    In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and re-form to the sound of the koto, a 13-stringed...

    Perspectrum
  • 2011
    White Light/White Heat

    White Light/White Heat

    White Light/White Heat

    82011HD

    A strong laserbeam is deflected by two mirrors oscillating at very high speeds. The human eye perceives a stable image as long as they move fast...

    White Light/White Heat
  • 2021
    Glimpse

    Glimpse

    Glimpse

    02021HD

    A ghost follows its non-existent shadow across a series of windows that gives light but no direction. As the ghost moves, a poem is read that serves...

    Glimpse
  • 2017
    140 Characters

    140 Characters

    140 Characters

    02017HD

    "We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

    140 Characters
  • 1982
    Night Mix

    Night Mix

    Night Mix

    61982HD

    Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense....

    Night Mix
  • 1966
    EMS nr 1

    EMS nr 1

    EMS nr 1

    01966HD

    An abstract audiovisual poem by electronic musician and composer Ralph Lundsten.

    EMS nr 1
  • 2021
    The Mouth

    The Mouth

    The Mouth

    02021HD

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

    The Mouth
  • 2021
    Time in a Grain of Sand

    Time in a Grain of Sand

    Time in a Grain of Sand

    02021HD

    An expression of time and memories.

    Time in a Grain of Sand
  • 1969
    Cosmos

    Cosmos

    Cosmos

    5.71969HD

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

    Cosmos