Abstract Movies

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

Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water,...

Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

Abstract animation

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

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as...

An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

A Sense Of Place is a short film made with scanned images of transparent Adhesive Sticky Tape. The traces, marks, and imprints left on the tape were...

An abstract and detailed observation of a young life told through a series of observational montages. Part of the 'Technicolour' series of films from...

A short animation about identity.

A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by...

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a...

Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.