Abstract Movies

A teenager is trapped in an anomalous realm with no way out, as if there is no flow of life. Everything goes strangely and incomprehensibly.

A man pays local children to bring him flies. After having cut off their wings and legs, he sticks them on the walls of his apartment. When a...

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the...

Mindy suspects that her ex is up to no good.

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining...

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

On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of...

An abstract short film about an alien invasion.

Flash projection from dutch visual artist Han Hoggerbrugge

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns....

A man has a breakdown after losing his job and winning a bar fight.

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.

A description of some parts of the world - explored, visited, documented, imagined. An abstract attempt at finding them again. The title refers to...

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

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...

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

A Experimental Docu-Drama about the Red Army Faction's formation, and events leading up to their imprisonment and death, from 1970 to 1977.

Short film about the inability to sleep, or to remain asleep throughout the night.