Abstract Movies
- 1981
Son of the White Mare
Son of the White Mare7.61981HD
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...
- 2017
Tremble All You Want
Tremble All You Want6.92017HD
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...
- 1968
Head
Head6.11968HD
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...
- 1965
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics7.31965HD
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...
- 1995
Casa de Lava
Casa de Lava6.8641995HD
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...
- 1958
Free Radicals
Free Radicals5.91958HD
In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using...
- 1923
Rhythm 23
Rhythm 235.41923HD
We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...
- 2003
Clandestine
Clandestine02003HD
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...
- 1940
Tarantella
Tarantella5.631940HD
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...
- 1999
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language01999HD
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...
- 2019
A Fugue
A Fugue02019HD
A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.
- 1965
Early Abstractions
Early Abstractions6.21965HD
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...
- 2015
Marking Time
Marking Time72015HD
"3D Video SBS (side by side) format. For viewing on 3D monitor or television" -Le Grice
- 2024
An Experiment in Image and Form
An Experiment in Image and Form02024HD
Trapped between the frames of time.
- 1956
No. 11: Mirror Animations
No. 11: Mirror Animations5.81956HD
Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.
- 2017
On Generation and Corruption
On Generation and Corruption62017HD
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...
- 1962
Prelude: Dog Star Man
Prelude: Dog Star Man6.2171962HD
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...
- 1969
Our Lady of the Sphere
Our Lady of the Sphere51969HD
Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...
- 2021
Pulvaaliraghu
Pulvaaliraghu02021HD
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...
- 2024
unseen existence
unseen existence02024HD
A collage hosted by "The Pointless", a dying overlord.