Abstract Movies

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

On a mysterious game show a young woman is forced to prove herself more human than her competitor.

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

Aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel in this...

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

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

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

C+M, for YK. Subtractive colour blending is used in an attempt to conjure Yves Klein's 'L'accord bleu (RE 10)', 1960. The limitations imposed by...

A found footage film about a strange and mysterious movie production.

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...

A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in...

In a surreal journey of self-discovery, a man serving twins in a luxurious mansion confronts the unknown world hidden behind the conditioning. He...

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

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

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...

A doll acquires consciousness and embarks on an introspection of the self.

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

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