Abstract Movies

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa

A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.

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

A tactile, layered animation in paint improvised in response to Andrew Schultz’s work for bassoon and piano.

This abstract video art piece was made for the purposes of being a backdrop to a semi-improvisational three person dance piece and live spoken word...

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

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

An abstract film, with which Pansini attempted "Malevichean" reduction. It is a blank, an empty film reel with coloristic and toned global changes,...

Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching...

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

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...

From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life in this experimental visual music film.

Water, fire and oil mix into an anxious premonition read across the surface of an eye, a pond and an expressway. Filmed in Los Angeles, San Francisco...

Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master...

Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.

These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent...

A film about endless processes. Images reappearing. New sentences being written.

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,...