Abstract Movies

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

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

Short film about the inability to sleep, or to remain asleep throughout the night.

Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and...

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,...

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

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

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon.

Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.

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 attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which...

A disillusioned young man enjoys the beauty of the last minutes before Tomorrow.

Attachment is an experimental, abstract short film about the attachment between the self and other from a marxist perspective, exploring how the...

A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes. An abstract film drawn directly on the computer.

In this silent short film, we follow three stories grappling with grief. As the characters within these stories take action and process their...

An official bootleg of Shearling's 2025 European tour live at Lightspace, Leeds (September 11th), recorded by The Factory Roof (Annya McCabe).