Abstract Movies

A lensless exploration of hair on 35mm film.

Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.

A colourful "fountain performance".

Trapped in a torture room, Derrick must find a way to escape, but when certain truths are uncovered, chaos ensues, and the cookies begin to crumble.

Lulu the dog gets a job at the local convenience store and stays up all night cleaning the back room. Short created for [adult swim] Smalls.

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

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...

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

A short animation about identity.

After Billy finds a winning scratch ticket, the gas station gets a new lottery machine that becomes the talk of the town. Part of [adult swim] smalls...

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...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

A ghost follows its non-existent shadow across a series of windows that gives light but no direction. As the ghost moves, a poem is read that serves...

A found footage film about a strange and mysterious movie production.

A Sense Of Place is a short film made with scanned images of transparent Adhesive Sticky Tape. The traces, marks, and imprints left on the tape were...

Chicago streets.

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he...

Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project

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

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.