Abstract Movies

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

Global in scope but intimate in spirit, Simon Liu's Fallen Arches is a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and...

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

An abstract, surreal and experimental anthology consisting of five sequences exploring the themes of identity, the nature of existence and the human...

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...

Astract stop-motion short film using "lightning doodles" by Tochka.

A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by...

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

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

Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory,...

A young filmmaker goes on a surreal journey that blurs reality in order to film the perfect scene.

Attachment is an experimental, abstract short film about the attachment between the self and other from a marxist perspective, exploring how the...

Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and...

A Experimental Docu-Drama about the Red Army Faction's formation, and events leading up to their imprisonment and death, from 1970 to 1977.

Building on testimony from pro-Palestinian activists in Berlin and featuring demonstration footage from between 2023 and 2025, this animated...

An abstract mood piece that aims to cultivate existential anxiety, exploring the shape and purpose of both man-made and natural objects, while...

June 1971 - in a fluid landscape completely below sea level, a young biology student dies during the last year of his studies, leaving behind an...

An abstract audiovisual poem by electronic musician and composer Ralph Lundsten.

The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2008.After returning to Japan, I soon began making...

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation...