Abstract Movies

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...

An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering...

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation...

Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama...

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.

These are work-in-progress elements of various commercial projects and a film to be titled Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent...

Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light...

Short film about the inability to sleep, or to remain asleep throughout the night.

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside...

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

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music

Life in the Atom was never completed, but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a...

The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the...

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

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

Opening with a classic image of Chairman Mao spewing red star tears, this animation is a masterful example of Beckett’s distinctive technique...

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

Experiment by Lex Barrett.