Is there such a thing as abstract visual art that is animated?

[Boojatta]

For example, are there feature-length movies consisting of animated abstract art?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. maybe Fantasia comes close ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032455/plotsummary
An innovative and revolutionary animated classic from Walt Disney, combining Western classical music masterpieces with imaginative visuals, presented with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The eight animation sequences are colorful, impressive, free-flowing, abstract, and often surrealistic pieces. They include the most famous of all, Paul Dukas's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" with Mickey Mouse as the title character battling brooms carrying endless buckets of water. Also included are J.S. Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"; Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite"; dinosaurs and volcanoes in Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"; the delightful "Dance of the Hours" by Ponchielli with dancing hippos, crocodiles, ostriches, and elephants; and Mussorgsky's darkly apocalyptic "Night on Bald Mountain.

Walt Disney - Fantasia - Mickey The Sorcerer's Apprentice
http://www.youtube.com/v/XChxLGnIwCU&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b





















or dude, you could buy a lava lamp

[timtom]

7. Funniest response I have ever seen here.

[AsahinaKimi]

2. I would suggest

howls moving castle




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl%27s_Moving_Castle_%28film%29

[Radical Activist]

3. Heavy Metal

haha

Nothing comes to mind.

[RushIsRot]

4. Koyaanisqatsi

Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi, on which Fricke was chief cameraman. That film, whose title is a Hopi word for "Life Out of Balance," contrasted the serene natural wonders of America with its hustling, bustling industry, without narration or plot, using only gorgeously photographed, fleeting images set to a driving, mesmerizing Philip Glass score.

If it doesn't need to be a film, how about Alexander Calder's mobiles?

[MicaelS]

5. How about some Fractal / Mandelbrot animations?

Combines mathematics with art.

http://www.fractal-recursions.com/files/anim/anim.html

http://www.fractal-animation.net/ufvp.html

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&source=hp&q=fractal+animation&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=nqVRS_qUGIK4NrWNzYEE&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBAQqwQwAA#

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Mandelbrot+animations&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#

Plenty more out there, just Google "Fractal animations" or "Mandelbrot animations"

[old mark]

6. Sculpture by Harry Bertoia. Many were made of thin fiber-like wands of steel

end-on in a flat steel base, spreading out in a fan shape. If you grab and release the bottom, or just touch it nearly anywhere, it ripples and waves for a period of time. They are quite interesting and beautiful.

mark

added: See here- http://www.hbrp.net/HBRP/HBRPident30.htm

See the categories "Spray" and "Willow"-they are the most mobile.