Abstract Movies
- 1975
Perspectrum
Perspectrum01975HD
In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and re-form to the sound of the koto, a 13-stringed J...
- 2018
red, blue and black
red, blue and black02018HD
Experimental abstraction in red, blue and black ink.
- 2023
Brute
Brute102023HD
A man has a breakdown after losing his job and winning a bar fight.
- 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 an...
- 2009
The Artifice
The Artifice102009HD
An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.
- 1967
Everything Is a Number
Everything Is a Number5.51967HD
Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.
- 2016
Dimensions
Dimensions02016HD
A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns....
- 2016
............ (ellipsis, ellipsis, ellipsis...)
............ (ellipsis, ellipsis, ellipsis...)02016HD
Noise, static, channel change...
- 1961
Blazes
Blazes4.71961HD
100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.
- 2022
Woman Is My Last Name
Woman Is My Last Name02022HD
This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.
- 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 catastrop...
- 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 mixed...
- 2022
Sunfall
Sunfall02022HD
A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.
- 1991
The Elephant Graveyard
The Elephant Graveyard01991HD
A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more vehicl...
- 1999
Bloodlust
Bloodlust7.31999HD
An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which is a fil...
- 2023
I’m Trying To Speak The Language Of My Eyes
I’m Trying To Speak The Language Of My Eyes02023HD
The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...
- 2021
Thine Own Self
Thine Own Self102021HD
Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.
- 1990
Anyway
Anyway8.51990HD
Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as J.M...
- 2016
easy on the eyes
easy on the eyes02016HD
Blue paint, light, globe, water, slow motion, flow, liquid...
- 2023
Crepuscus
Crepuscus02023HD
At dusk, an observer captures an absurd phenomenon.