Abstract Movies
- 1982
Night Mix
Night Mix61982HD
Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense....
- 2024
Cloud Film
Cloud Film02024HD
cloud film meditates on the calming effects of watching clouds, while also demanding action to combat our impact on the environment. It calls...
- 1970
Knotte Grosse Loops
Knotte Grosse Loops01970HD
These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent...
- 1969
Cosmos
Cosmos5.71969HD
The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the...
- 1999
Bloodlust
Bloodlust7.31999HD
An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which...
- 2015
Disporting with a Shadow
Disporting with a Shadow62015HD
Water, fire and oil mix into an anxious premonition read across the surface of an eye, a pond and an expressway. Filmed in Los Angeles, San Francisco...
- 2003
Allahu Akbar
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Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...
- 2017
Abstract feat. Alkama
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Astract stop-motion short film using "lightning doodles" by Tochka.
- 2025
First Light
First Light02025HD
Thirty-six layers of water aligned to create a perfect circle. 1 of 2
- 2012
Shift
Shift02012HD
An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or...
- 2019
Details of Pollock's White Light
Details of Pollock's White Light02019HD
Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.
- 2020
Boy Waits
Boy Waits02020HD
A boy waits in the same street every day with his bags packed. What is he waiting for?
- 1975
Perspectrum
Perspectrum01975HD
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...
- 1970
Data Death
Data Death01970HD
A computer program named A.D.O.M tries to create a living being that will help to release both of them from their void. This film was created...
- 1973
Landscape
Landscape01973HD
Chicago streets.
- 2000
Scratch
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In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are...
- 2017
#57
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A categorical accumulation of abstract patterns. Lines, colours and sounds obey an impenetrable logic. A quiet film that dares to be resolutely...
- 2021
Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts
Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts02021HD
Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light...
- 1974
Life in the Atom
Life in the Atom01974HD
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...
- 2021
Hand
Hand02021HD
The weird hand creatures undergo different transformations in synchrony with the music.