Abstract Movies

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

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...

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...

Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense....

Aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel in this...

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

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which...

A disillusioned young man enjoys the beauty of the last minutes before Tomorrow.

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

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

Inefficient Joy is an experimental ski film that explores the paradox of devoting so much time and energy to something as fleeting as the moments we...

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and...

A man has a breakdown after losing his job and winning a bar fight.

An abstract journey through the unconscious in transition of a protagonist stretched out on the asphalt, on a Sunday

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

A short film about young adults and their complicated relationship to Hongdae — a busy clubbing area filled to the brim with Seoul's youth.

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...