Abstract Movies

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

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

After Billy finds a winning scratch ticket, the gas station gets a new lottery machine that becomes the talk of the town. Part of [adult swim] smalls...

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy...

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

A man is horribly tortured by another who wants him to reveal where his girlfriend is hiding.

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining...

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

A Sense Of Place is a short film made with scanned images of transparent Adhesive Sticky Tape. The traces, marks, and imprints left on the tape were...

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...

In his film #43, Joost Rekveld observes what happens to a system that is destabilised by ‘creative' pixels, drawing inspiration from the set of...

Trapped in a torture room, Derrick must find a way to escape, but when certain truths are uncovered, chaos ensues, and the cookies begin to crumble.

"An exciting experiment in the tradition of Oskar Fischinger (Komposition in Blau, 1935), Dwinell Grant (Composition No. 1, 1940) and Slavko...

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...

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

A ghost follows its non-existent shadow across a series of windows that gives light but no direction. As the ghost moves, a poem is read that serves...

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...

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