As George Antheil’s avant-garde composition “Ballet Mecanique (1952 revision)” plays, a dizzying array of abstract paintings are captured in close-up, spun around, and rapidly edited together. Grotesque and frightening creatures start to emerge through the flickering shapes and patterns.

A moveable feast of fantastic colors and geometric motifs, Suzan Pitt’s cyclonic animated short playfully resists the tyranny of storytelling. Imbued with the avant-garde spirit of 20th-century abstract art, this shape-shifting wonder beckons us to let our eyes—and our minds—roam wild and free.