Abstract Movies

Music by Jeremy Young (with Tomonari Nishikawa) Music video by Tomonari Nishikawa

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

An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

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 space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns....

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...

The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence.

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...

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...

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

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

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

A colourful "fountain performance".

Experiment by Lex Barrett.

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials...

"An exciting experiment in the tradition of Oskar Fischinger (Komposition in Blau, 1935), Dwinell Grant (Composition No. 1, 1940) and Slavko...

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...