Abstract Movies

High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.

An abstract short film that sheds light on the bad habits of the society in which we evolve, but in a dark satiric & cynical way.

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

Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano...

Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama...

Experiment by Lex Barrett.

An abstract film on the music 'Unfinished' 8th Symphony, part 1, by Franz Schubert by Oerd van Cuijlenborg

A hand animated film that is a precursor for Belson’s later work

The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which...

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

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...

Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the...

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

He needs to be helped out.

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...

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music

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

Students walk into a photography studio to have their photograph taken, and put on a smile for the picture. But as soon as the camera flashes, it...

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