Abstract Movies

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...

Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.

A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in...

Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water,...

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

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

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

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

Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation from Run Wrake and Howie B.

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...

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

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

In this silent short film, we follow three stories grappling with grief. As the characters within these stories take action and process their...

Crab Day is a short film made to accompany Cate Le Bon’s eponymous album, released on April 15, 2016 via Turnstile. Directed by Phil Collins...

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

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

Animation short by Alina Maliszewska.

Follows a young girl appreciating her surroundings in her final moments before taking her life.

Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendo-ing in time with Christopher...