Abstract Movies
- 2024
Monosyllabic
Monosyllabic02024HD
In an alternate universe, the dinosaurs have roared one too many times before the asteroid hits Earth. The consequences that follow could be catastrop...
- 1968
Head
Head6.11968HD
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 vig...
- 2017
Tremble All You Want
Tremble All You Want72017HD
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 fixati...
- 1981
Son of the White Mare
Son of the White Mare7.61981HD
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 th...
- 1995
Casa de Lava
Casa de Lava6.8641995HD
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...
- 2024
I Am Here Now
I Am Here Now02024HD
An abstract horror artefact conceptualising trans doubt and dysphoria as a physically invasive force - a virus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewaVwm...
- 1958
Free Radicals
Free Radicals5.91958HD
In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using...
- 1965
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics7.31965HD
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 squiggle...
- 1962
Prelude: Dog Star Man
Prelude: Dog Star Man6.2441962HD
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion...
- 1923
Rhythm 23
Rhythm 235.41923HD
We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures boun...
- 2024
Mildew
Mildew02024HD
'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while overco...
- 2014
Interference
Interference02014HD
On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of migran...
- 2017
Rodez
Rodez102017HD
An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering c...
- 1940
Tarantella
Tarantella5.61940HD
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 (visua...
- 1961
Blazes
Blazes4.71961HD
100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.
- 1974
Fuji
Fuji5.81974HD
A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...
- 1961
Shearing Animation
Shearing Animation71961HD
An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.
- 1963
21-87
21-876.81963HD
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 Fil...
- 1980
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons6.31980HD
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 6...
- 1967
Everything Is a Number
Everything Is a Number5.51967HD
Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.