Abstract Movies

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

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...

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

Our Lady of the Sphere uses cut-out animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are...

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide...

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

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

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...

Serenade is a milestone in the history of dance. It is the first original ballet George Balanchine created in America in 1934, and is one of the...

Animation short by Alina Maliszewska.

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

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

This film, photographed in London, is an exploration into the depths of unconscious reactions.

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

[The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity 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...

What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and...