Abstract Movies

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

A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....

On a mysterious game show a young woman is forced to prove herself more human than her competitor.

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...

An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors.

An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or...

C+M, for YK. Subtractive colour blending is used in an attempt to conjure Yves Klein's 'L'accord bleu (RE 10)', 1960. The limitations imposed by...

An official bootleg of Shearling's 2025 European tour live at Lightspace, Leeds (September 11th), recorded by The Factory Roof (Annya McCabe).

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...

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

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

The strange transformation of a surveillance camera.

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

In a surreal journey of self-discovery, a man serving twins in a luxurious mansion confronts the unknown world hidden behind the conditioning. He...

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

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...

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...

A doll acquires consciousness and embarks on an introspection of the self.

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller