Abstract Movies

  • 2024
    Monosyllabic

    Monosyllabic

    Monosyllabic

    02024HD

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

    Monosyllabic
  • 1968
    Head

    Head

    Head

    6.11968HD

    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...

    Head
  • 2017
    Tremble All You Want

    Tremble All You Want

    Tremble All You Want

    72017HD

    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...

    Tremble All You Want
  • 1981
    Son of the White Mare

    Son of the White Mare

    Son of the White Mare

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    A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim...

    Son of the White Mare
  • 1995
    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava

    6.8641995HD

    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...

    Casa de Lava
  • 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
  • 1958
    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals

    5.91958HD

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

    Free Radicals
  • 1965
    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    7.31965HD

    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...

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
  • 1962
    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    6.2441962HD

    A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...

    Prelude: Dog Star Man
  • 1923
    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23

    5.41923HD

    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
  • 2024
    Mildew

    Mildew

    Mildew

    02024HD

    'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while...

    Mildew
  • 2014
    Interference

    Interference

    Interference

    02014HD

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

    Interference
  • 2017
    Rodez

    Rodez

    Rodez

    102017HD

    An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering...

    Rodez
  • 1940
    Tarantella

    Tarantella

    Tarantella

    5.61940HD

    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...

    Tarantella
  • 1961
    Blazes

    Blazes

    Blazes

    4.71961HD

    100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

    Blazes
  • 1974
    Fuji

    Fuji

    Fuji

    5.81974HD

    A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

    Fuji
  • 1961
    Shearing Animation

    Shearing Animation

    Shearing Animation

    71961HD

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

    Shearing Animation
  • 1963
    21-87

    21-87

    21-87

    6.81963HD

    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...

    21-87
  • 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