Abstract Movies

Lulu the dog gets a job at the local convenience store and stays up all night cleaning the back room. Short created for [adult swim] Smalls.

'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while...

With a rushing smear, a cyclist begins his race.

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

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

Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.

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

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

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...

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...

An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.

Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

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

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...

Aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel in this...

In this silent short film, we follow three stories grappling with grief. As the characters within these stories take action and process their...

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...