Abstract Movies
- 2024
Monosyllabic
Monosyllabic02024HD
In an alternate universe, the dinosaurs have roared one too many times before the asteroid hits Earth. The consequences that follow could be...
- 2017
Tremble All You Want
Tremble All You Want72017HD
Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming...
- 1968
Head
Head6.11968HD
In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and...
- 1981
Son of the White Mare
Son of the White Mare7.61981HD
A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim...
- 1995
Casa de Lava
Casa de Lava6.8641995HD
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...
- 1965
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics7.31965HD
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...
- 2024
I Am Here Now
I Am Here Now02024HD
An abstract horror artefact conceptualising trans doubt and dysphoria as a physically invasive force - a virus....
- 1958
Free Radicals
Free Radicals5.91958HD
In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using...
- 2014
Interference
Interference02014HD
On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of...
- 1962
Prelude: Dog Star Man
Prelude: Dog Star Man6.2441962HD
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...
- 2024
Mildew
Mildew02024HD
'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while...
- 1940
Tarantella
Tarantella5.61940HD
Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials...
- 1961
Drums West
Drums West7.71961HD
This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the...
- 1961
Shearing Animation
Shearing Animation71961HD
An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.
- 1952
Color Cry
Color Cry5.61952HD
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...
- 1969
Our Lady of the Sphere
Our Lady of the Sphere51969HD
Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...
- 1980
Aquarelles
Aquarelles01980HD
Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.
- 1923
Rhythm 23
Rhythm 235.41923HD
We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...
- 2021
Pulvaaliraghu
Pulvaaliraghu02021HD
The fan's self-sacrificing blades dance in the air, generating a refreshing breeze that wipes away the sweat of others and brings solace on a...
- 2010
Mamori
Mamori4.82010HD
Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals...