Abstract Movies

  • 2016
    Dimensions

    Dimensions

    Dimensions

    02016HD

    A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns....

    Dimensions
  • 2026
    A Hair Short

    A Hair Short

    A Hair Short

    02026HD

    A lensless exploration of hair on 35mm film.

    A Hair Short
  • 2025
    All Blurry Around the Open Flame

    All Blurry Around the Open Flame

    All Blurry Around the Open Flame

    02025HD

    A short film about the abstract processes of light becoming a physical form in the landscape.

    All Blurry Around the Open Flame
  • 2012
    The Extravagant Shadows

    The Extravagant Shadows

    The Extravagant Shadows

    52012HD

    Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching...

    The Extravagant Shadows
  • 1977
    D'art moderne

    D'art moderne

    D'art moderne

    91977HD

    D'art moderne
  • 2024
    Last Days of Summer

    Last Days of Summer

    Last Days of Summer

    02024HD

    Quiet reflections at the end of the season.

    Last Days of Summer
  • 2021
    L'intimité

    L'intimité

    L'intimité

    02021HD

    L'intimité
  • 2014
    Blue Movie

    Blue Movie

    Blue Movie

    02014HD

    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...

    Blue Movie
  • 2010
    Deluge

    Deluge

    Deluge

    02010HD

    Deluge is a 2010 post-apocalyptic short film directed by Australian musician Lulu Collard.

    Deluge
  • 2025
    Static Moon

    Static Moon

    Static Moon

    02025HD

    When viewed from far away, life on Earth can seem meaningless. But when a star inhabits a dying girl, they experience the tragic beauty found at the...

    Static Moon
  • 2024
    Beyond the Moonlight

    Beyond the Moonlight

    Beyond the Moonlight

    02024HD

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

    Beyond the Moonlight
  • 1958
    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals

    Free Radicals

    6.0491958HD

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

    Free Radicals
  • 1978
    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

    01978HD

    Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied...

    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)
  • 2021
    Glimpse

    Glimpse

    Glimpse

    02021HD

    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...

    Glimpse
  • 2000
    Scratch

    Scratch

    Scratch

    102000HD

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

    Scratch
  • 1988
    Dragonfly

    Dragonfly

    Dragonfly

    61988HD

    An abstract animation with a motif of a dragonfly, and a complex multi-exposure landscape of a field and a woman's naked body overlap.

    Dragonfly
  • 1995
    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    61995HD

    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...

    Unstable Materials
  • 2026
    In illo αTempore

    In illo αTempore

    In illo αTempore

    02026HD

    Part seven of cycle "The Requiem Films". “I imagine that almost everyone who has come across this piece is familiar with the phrase ‘in...

    In illo αTempore
  • 2026
    Staatsräson

    Staatsräson

    Staatsräson

    02026HD

    Building on testimony from pro-Palestinian activists in Berlin and featuring demonstration footage from between 2023 and 2025, this animated...

    Staatsräson
  • 2020
    François Couperin. The Alarm Clock

    François Couperin. The Alarm Clock

    François Couperin. The Alarm Clock

    02020HD

    From the film-almanac on musical works of classics for children "Children's Album". A little film about genesis.

    François Couperin. The Alarm Clock