Abstract Movies

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the...

Thirty-six layers of water aligned to create a perfect circle. 1 of 2

A boy dreams about a girl who he is in love with.

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

An abstract horror artefact conceptualising trans doubt and dysphoria as a physically invasive force - a virus....

Short experimental film by Jordan Belson

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

A short, abstract look at the effects of repetition on the human mind.

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...

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

An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or...

A condensation of a handful of sunsets with various visual moods. Red and blue as opposites that still find a way to cohere. Concrete silhouettes...

The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped...

A short animation about identity.

Gogu’s feelings living with his parents for the past 28 years and still being a (fat) jobless filmmaker.

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

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller