Abstract Movies

  • 1981
    Son of the White Mare

    Son of the White Mare

    Son of the White Mare

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    A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim...

    Son of the White Mare
  • 2017
    Tremble All You Want

    Tremble All You Want

    Tremble All You Want

    6.92017HD

    Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming...

    Tremble All You Want
  • 1968
    Head

    Head

    Head

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    In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and...

    Head
  • 1965
    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    7.31965HD

    Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
  • 1995
    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava

    6.8641995HD

    The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

    Casa de Lava
  • 1958
    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals

    5.91958HD

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

    Free Radicals
  • 1923
    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23

    5.41923HD

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

    Rhythm 23
  • 2003
    Clandestine

    Clandestine

    Clandestine

    02003HD

    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...

    Clandestine
  • 1940
    Tarantella

    Tarantella

    Tarantella

    5.631940HD

    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...

    Tarantella
  • 1999
    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    01999HD

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

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
  • 2019
    A Fugue

    A Fugue

    A Fugue

    02019HD

    A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

    A Fugue
  • 1965
    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

    6.21965HD

    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...

    Early Abstractions
  • 2015
    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    72015HD

    "3D Video SBS (side by side) format. For viewing on 3D monitor or television" -Le Grice

    Marking Time
  • 2024
    An Experiment in Image and Form

    An Experiment in Image and Form

    An Experiment in Image and Form

    02024HD

    Trapped between the frames of time.

    An Experiment in Image and Form
  • 1956
    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    5.81956HD

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

    No. 11: Mirror Animations
  • 2017
    On Generation and Corruption

    On Generation and Corruption

    On Generation and Corruption

    62017HD

    Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between...

    On Generation and Corruption
  • 1962
    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    6.2171962HD

    A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...

    Prelude: Dog Star Man
  • 1969
    Our Lady of the Sphere

    Our Lady of the Sphere

    Our Lady of the Sphere

    51969HD

    Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...

    Our Lady of the Sphere
  • 2021
    Pulvaaliraghu

    Pulvaaliraghu

    Pulvaaliraghu

    02021HD

    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...

    Pulvaaliraghu
  • 2024
    unseen existence

    unseen existence

    unseen existence

    02024HD

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

    unseen existence