Abstract Movies

  • 2016
    Crab Day

    Crab Day

    Crab Day

    02016HD

    Crab Day is a short film made to accompany Cate Le Bon’s eponymous album, released on April 15, 2016 via Turnstile. Directed by Phil Collins...

    Crab Day
  • 2025
    Garden Story

    Garden Story

    Garden Story

    02025HD

    Presented in an abstract, non-sequential fashion, it tells the story of a filmmaker's growing frustration as he attempts to make a movie about his...

    Garden Story
  • 1989
    Physical Sculpture

    Physical Sculpture

    Physical Sculpture

    51989HD

    A sculptor models a face with boxing gloves.

    Physical Sculpture
  • 1972
    Air!

    Air!

    Air!

    6.51972HD

    Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water,...

    Air!
  • 1968
    Momentum

    Momentum

    Momentum

    6.51968HD

    "Momentum is Belson's most serene and gentle film since Allures. This treatment of the sun as an almost dreamlike hallucinatory experience is both...

    Momentum
  • 2019
    Catgot

    Catgot

    Catgot

    02019HD

    A colourful "fountain performance".

    Catgot
  • 1978
    Impasse

    Impasse

    Impasse

    01978HD

    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...

    Impasse
  • 2018
    A Sense Of Place

    A Sense Of Place

    A Sense Of Place

    02018HD

    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...

    A Sense Of Place
  • 1989
    The Blind

    The Blind

    The Blind

    01989HD

    A blind man stumbles about in a desert before his seeing stick is caught in a bear trap. Crawling, he manages to find a waiting line composed of the...

    The Blind
  • 2024
    for us, an essay

    for us, an essay

    for us, an essay

    02024HD

    How heavy is an emotional relationship in TRANSit? Giving love? Losing love? Having, in my chest, not only a heart but also longing? That's why I...

    for us, an essay
  • 2018
    _ImEdge

    _ImEdge

    _ImEdge

    02018HD

    A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree.

    _ImEdge
  • 2012
    Before Before

    Before Before

    Before Before

    02012HD

    This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

    Before Before
  • 2012
    Down with the Dawn

    Down with the Dawn

    Down with the Dawn

    02012HD

    Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation from Run Wrake and Howie B.

    Down with the Dawn
  • 2025
    My Blood Flows Like Acid

    My Blood Flows Like Acid

    My Blood Flows Like Acid

    02025HD

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

    My Blood Flows Like Acid
  • 1938
    Ideas in Search of Light

    Ideas in Search of Light

    Ideas in Search of Light

    81938HD

    Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife,...

    Ideas in Search of Light
  • 1980
    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    6.31980HD

    Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
  • 1967
    Everything Is a Number

    Everything Is a Number

    Everything Is a Number

    5.51967HD

    Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

    Everything Is a Number
  • 2024
    I Am Here Now

    I Am Here Now

    I Am Here Now

    02024HD

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

    I Am Here Now
  • 1966
    EMS nr 1

    EMS nr 1

    EMS nr 1

    01966HD

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

    EMS nr 1
  • 1923
    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23

    5.3951923HD

    We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

    Rhythm 23