Abstract Movies

In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and...

Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming...

Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

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

Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by...

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

A visualizer for Phoebe Bridgers' Copycat Killer EP, featuring four songs originally released on the Grammy-nominated album Punisher, with new...

When a structure falls silent, of what does it dream? A study on the concept of super-organisms, and the relationship between structure and nature,...

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the...

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...

Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals...

A Dream... is an abstract, horror piece that explores the subconscious mind of modern, western man, touching on cultural guilt, self deception, and...

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...

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...

A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into...

In an alternate universe, the dinosaurs have roared one too many times before the asteroid hits Earth. The consequences that follow could be...

On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of...

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...

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...