Abstract Movies

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

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force.

"Momentum is Belson's most serene and gentle film since Allures. This treatment of the sun as an almost dreamlike hallucinatory experience is both...

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

From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life in this experimental visual music film.

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

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon.

The function of the wrestler is not to win. It is to go through the motions that are expected of him.

With a rushing smear, a cyclist begins his race.

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...

Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife,...

Bizarre abstract stop-motion animation questioning traditional values in a period of great social upheaval.

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

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...

The second film in the Phosphenes series.

Another example of Detheux’s enchanting work, this year deepened by some outstanding live performance experiences.

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

An attempt to conjure pictorially, from the mind, an image that isn't referential: "...I'd like to give something back, not a picture of a flower,...

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

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