Abstract Movies

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

Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame.

A colourful "fountain performance".

Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the...

"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a...

A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously.

One day, one moment, there the forest has its own time. The place without meridian. The empty place. The place without human. The place has been...

A study of water and fire.

A short, abstract look at the effects of repetition on the human mind.

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

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy...

A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by...

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into...

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining...

Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense....

A hand animated film that is a precursor for Belson’s later work

A depressed man contemplates the imminent end of the world.

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...