Abstract Movies

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leather,...

A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon.

A young filmmaker goes on a surreal journey that blurs reality in order to film the perfect scene.

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

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

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

Students walk into a photography studio to have their photograph taken, and put on a smile for the picture. But as soon as the camera flashes, it...

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...

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

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

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

Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a...

Abstract animation

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

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home.

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

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...

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

Everyday states of being and decay are observed through the infinite scope of the cosmos and the restorative light which emanates from it, driving...