Abstract Movies

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

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...

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leather,...

Trapped in a torture room, Derrick must find a way to escape, but when certain truths are uncovered, chaos ensues, and the cookies begin to crumble.

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...

The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which...

Opening with a classic image of Chairman Mao spewing red star tears, this animation is a masterful example of Beckett’s distinctive technique...

Our Lady of the Sphere uses cut-out animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are...

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...

Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching...

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy...

Polish avant-garde animation with changing colors and shapes that suggest birth followed by heavy distortion and building to a face in the swamp.

One day, one moment, there the forest has its own time. The place without meridian. The empty place. The place without human. The place has been...

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

Building on testimony from pro-Palestinian activists in Berlin and featuring demonstration footage from between 2023 and 2025, this animated...

Life in the Atom was never completed, but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a...

Students walk into a photography studio to have their photograph taken, and put on a smile for the picture. But as soon as the camera flashes, it...

A depressed man contemplates the imminent end of the world.