Abstract Movies

  • 1970
    Close-Up: an oddyssey

    Close-Up: an oddyssey

    Close-Up: an oddyssey

    01970HD

    Bored with her mundane life, aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer...

    Close-Up: an oddyssey
  • 2012
    A Dream...

    A Dream...

    A Dream...

    02012HD

    A Dream... is an abstract, horror piece that explores the subconscious mind of modern, western man, touching on cultural guilt, self deception, and...

    A Dream...
  • 2014
    Third Page from the Sun

    Third Page from the Sun

    Third Page from the Sun

    4.12014HD

    Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has become obsolete by the digital dematerialization....

    Third Page from the Sun
  • 1957
    Logos

    Logos

    Logos

    01957HD

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

    Logos
  • 2001
    Mushroom

    Mushroom

    Mushroom

    52001HD

    Ki-No-Ko is a surreal five-minute short film published on Art of Silent Hill, Lost Memories: The Art & Music of Silent Hill and The Silent Hill...

    Mushroom
  • 1913
    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

    01913HD

    A film unmade-- That is, Survage's film was never realized in the traditional sense-- At the time, such a project was beyond technological...

    Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film
  • 1977
    Wet Paint

    Wet Paint

    Wet Paint

    81977HD

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

    Wet Paint
  • 2012
    PXXXL

    PXXXL

    PXXXL

    02012HD

    Using century old technology, PXXXL creates digital glitch from analog process. It was animated directly on the celluloid without a camera, in a...

    PXXXL
  • 2023
    Brute

    Brute

    Brute

    102023HD

    A man has a breakdown after losing his job and winning a bar fight.

    Brute
  • 2021
    L'intimité

    L'intimité

    L'intimité

    02021HD

    L'intimité
  • 2005
    8.1

    8.1

    8.1

    02005HD

    An abstract film on the music 'Unfinished' 8th Symphony, part 1, by Franz Schubert by Oerd van Cuijlenborg

    8.1
  • 1969
    Cosmos

    Cosmos

    Cosmos

    5.71969HD

    The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the...

    Cosmos
  • 2020
    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers

    02020HD

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

    Casual Workers
  • 1973
    Landscape

    Landscape

    Landscape

    01973HD

    Chicago streets.

    Landscape
  • 2023
    Liminal II

    Liminal II

    Liminal II

    02023HD

    In the smallest hour, a Crepuscus Tree beckons another unknowing wanderer.

    Liminal II
  • 2000
    Scratch

    Scratch

    Scratch

    02000HD

    In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are...

    Scratch
  • 1980
    Precious Metal

    Precious Metal

    Precious Metal

    01980HD

    A visual and musical elaboration on the Crab Canon in which the theme of intersecting beams is played against itself going backwards.

    Precious Metal
  • 1959
    High Voltage

    High Voltage

    High Voltage

    51959HD

    High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.

    High Voltage
  • 2024
    Magic Conch Shell

    Magic Conch Shell

    Magic Conch Shell

    82024HD

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

    Magic Conch Shell
  • 1965
    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

    6.21965HD

    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...

    Early Abstractions