Abstract Movies

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

A short animation about identity.

Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project

An abstract animation with a motif of a dragonfly, and a complex multi-exposure landscape of a field and a woman's naked body overlap.

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

A knight has second thoughts before the coronation of a new king.

A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell.

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

"Mouris’s film, YOU’RE NOT REAL PRETTY BUT YOU’RE MINE…, built upon the strongest elements of QUICK DREAM, and added a pop...

Jane Conger Belson Shimane's first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The...

mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human....

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for...

An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

Abstract horror short about a girl's face.

A study of water and fire.

A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously.

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he...