Abstract Movies

An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.

"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she...

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining...

A young vampire must confront her past and future as she attempts to cement her legacy.

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.

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

A man pays local children to bring him flies. After having cut off their wings and legs, he sticks them on the walls of his apartment. When a...

A visceral journey through dysphoria in the internet age.

Polish avant-garde animation with changing colors and shapes that suggest birth followed by heavy distortion and building to a face in the swamp.

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into...

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

A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously.

A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, such a project was beyond technological...

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell.

A subway passenger suffers from hallucinations and sees the metro that he has just boarded accelerate and gain speed quickly.

A couple are watching television together. Over time, the shows become more bizarre: a news report about the arrest of two terrorists reveals they...

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

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.

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...