Abstract Movies

These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent...

This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue

The fan's self-sacrificing blades dance in the air, generating a refreshing breeze that wipes away the sweat of others and brings solace on a...

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials...

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.

High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.

A hand animated film that is a precursor for Belson’s later work

Animation short by Alina Maliszewska.

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

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

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

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he...

The strange transformation of a surveillance camera.

An abstract film, with which Pansini attempted "Malevichean" reduction. It is a blank, an empty film reel with coloristic and toned global changes,...

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker...

A subway passenger suffers from hallucinations and sees the metro that he has just boarded accelerate and gain speed quickly.

A collage hosted by "The Pointless", a dying overlord.

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

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...