Abstract Movies

  • 1913
    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

    01913HD

    A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, such a project was beyond technological...

    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film
  • 1989
    Interrogation

    Interrogation

    Interrogation

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    A man is horribly tortured by another who wants him to reveal where his girlfriend is hiding.

    Interrogation
  • 2021
    Thine Own Self

    Thine Own Self

    Thine Own Self

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    Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

    Thine Own Self
  • 2013
    Barcode III.0

    Barcode III.0

    Barcode III.0

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    A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in...

    Barcode III.0
  • 2005
    M・Y・F・A・C・E

    M・Y・F・A・C・E

    M・Y・F・A・C・E

    6.82005HD

    Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

    M・Y・F・A・C・E
  • 1996
    The Dowager's Feast

    The Dowager's Feast

    The Dowager's Feast

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    1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

    The Dowager's Feast
  • 1955
    Calypso

    Calypso

    Calypso

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    Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.

    Calypso
  • 1989
    TV Buster

    TV Buster

    TV Buster

    01989HD

    A couple are watching television together. Over time, the shows become more bizarre: a news report about the arrest of two terrorists reveals they...

    TV Buster
  • 1957
    All Souls Carnival

    All Souls Carnival

    All Souls Carnival

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

    All Souls Carnival
  • 2012
    Down with the Dawn

    Down with the Dawn

    Down with the Dawn

    02012HD

    Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation from Run Wrake and Howie B.

    Down with the Dawn
  • 1985
    Calculated Movements

    Calculated Movements

    Calculated Movements

    01985HD

    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...

    Calculated Movements
  • 2023
    I’m Trying to Speak the Language of My Eyes

    I’m Trying to Speak the Language of My Eyes

    I’m Trying to Speak the Language of My Eyes

    02023HD

    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...

    I’m Trying to Speak the Language of My Eyes
  • 2020
    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers

    02020HD

    An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

    Casual Workers
  • 2003
    Clandestine

    Clandestine

    Clandestine

    02003HD

    A short film released alongside AFI's 2003 album Sing The Sorrow. The four members of AFI search to obtain a mysterious box that bears a resemblance...

    Clandestine
  • 1989
    Bottling

    Bottling

    Bottling

    01989HD

    A man comes home at night and is attacked by a bottle.

    Bottling
  • 1989
    Graffiti

    Graffiti

    Graffiti

    01989HD

    A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....

    Graffiti
  • 1959
    Odds & Ends

    Odds & Ends

    Odds & Ends

    7.3331959HD

    Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory,...

    Odds & Ends
  • 2019
    Finding Vision, Finding Voice

    Finding Vision, Finding Voice

    Finding Vision, Finding Voice

    102019HD

    This abstract video art piece was made for the purposes of being a backdrop to a semi-improvisational three person dance piece and live spoken word...

    Finding Vision, Finding Voice
  • 2016
    Trans/Figure/Ground

    Trans/Figure/Ground

    Trans/Figure/Ground

    02016HD

    A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital.

    Trans/Figure/Ground
  • 1969
    Our Lady of the Sphere

    Our Lady of the Sphere

    Our Lady of the Sphere

    4.91969HD

    Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...

    Our Lady of the Sphere