Abstract Movies

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler

A young girl's odyssey intertwines with a luminescent guide, casting light on her path through life.

Abstract experimental film by Ignacio Mardones

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to...

In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light. An expression of a chaotic world. This...

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao

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

A man desperately struggles against a powerful, unseen force.

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...

Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home.

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

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.

Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in...

Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside...

Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak...

Mindy suspects that her ex is up to no good.

Chicago streets.

An abstract animation with a motif of a dragonfly, and a complex multi-exposure landscape of a field and a woman's naked body overlap.