Experimental Film Movies

  • 2022
    Proximities

    Proximities

    Proximities

    02022HD

    Proximities focuses on the trope of the Malay Boy found in the works of Singaporean artist Cheong Soo Pieng (b. 1917-1983). It attempts to locate the...

    Proximities
  • 2020
    Further Radical

    Further Radical

    Further Radical

    02020HD

    In A Radical Film, Canapa experimented with thin slices of black radish on unexposed film, a reference to film's roots. Further Radical is the same...

    Further Radical
  • 1971
    Production Footage

    Production Footage

    Production Footage

    01971HD

    "The cinematic mechanism cannot be completely deconstructed without resort to other means of mechanical image reproduction; a double system of...

    Production Footage
  • 2014
    Forbidden Symmetries

    Forbidden Symmetries

    Forbidden Symmetries

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    Three witnesses to the invasion. Three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they’ve seen...

    Forbidden Symmetries
  • 2023
    M Soup,

    M Soup,

    M Soup,

    02023HD

    M Soup, (2023) by Stephanie Mavi Garcia Panclas (SMGP), is their first experimental short film. M Soup, follows the character ‘M’ played...

    M Soup,
  • 2002
    Plaza Continuum

    Plaza Continuum

    Plaza Continuum

    02002HD

    Thirty years ago making experimental films, I used a technique which breaks footage into blocks of one second, divides each block into four,...

    Plaza Continuum
  • 2025
    MOUTH

    MOUTH

    MOUTH

    02025HD

    A mouth moving relentlessly through a mountain of electronic ear-cutting noises.

    MOUTH
  • 2023
    grass grows from the middle – thinking like grass

    grass grows from the middle – thinking like grass

    grass grows from the middle – thinking like grass

    02023HD

    The experimental short film is a fragmentary attempt to investigate the political potential of grasses, which in purely biological terms, in...

    grass grows from the middle – thinking like grass
  • 1963
    GHOST REV

    GHOST REV

    GHOST REV

    01963HD

    1965, black- and-white, 8 min., double-screen projection.

    GHOST REV
  • 1970
    King David

    King David

    King David

    01970HD

    [1970/2003, color, 7.5 min] Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

    King David
  • 1981
    The Shape of Things

    The Shape of Things

    The Shape of Things

    01981HD

    A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

    The Shape of Things
  • 2023
    Killer Bellboy

    Killer Bellboy

    Killer Bellboy

    92023HD

    As a working bellboy in 1946, Carl yearns for more. When world-renowned director Charles Cameron steps into the hotel, he gives Carl an offer he...

    Killer Bellboy
  • 2021
    Freedom of Clouds

    Freedom of Clouds

    Freedom of Clouds

    02021HD

    Informed by Taoist notions on the flow of nature, Freedom of Clouds is an experimental audiovisual poem composed of two visual languages which shift...

    Freedom of Clouds
  • 1968
    Documentary Footage

    Documentary Footage

    Documentary Footage

    01968HD

    Naturalness willfully corrupted by inevitable self-consciousness, unwittingly corrupted by unavoidable naturalness, a role played with incredible...

    Documentary Footage
  • 2024
    Reflections

    Reflections

    Reflections

    02024HD

    Showing the reflections of life. An experimental short film shot on Super 8.

    Reflections
  • 2024
    Loop

    Loop

    Loop

    02024HD

    Everything seems to be stuck in an endless loop. Everything seems to be stuck in an endless loop. Everything seems to be stuck in an endless loop....

    Loop
  • 2023
    Sightreading

    Sightreading

    Sightreading

    02023HD

    "My first 16mm, Sightreading, was shot in August 2022 in Minneapolis and Chicago. It uses images from three sources: black mattes held in front of...

    Sightreading
  • 1983
    How To Beat A Dead Horse

    How To Beat A Dead Horse

    How To Beat A Dead Horse

    01983HD

    Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

    How To Beat A Dead Horse
  • 1987
    Continuum

    Continuum

    Continuum

    91987HD

    In CONTINUUM, the world, the workers within the world and the labor of making the film itself are equated through montage and a brilliantly...

    Continuum
  • 2025
    Everything Alive Becomes Quiet

    Everything Alive Becomes Quiet

    Everything Alive Becomes Quiet

    02025HD

    The video draws poignant parallels between the melting of permafrost, the loss of biodiversity, and the Indigenous understanding of the body as an...

    Everything Alive Becomes Quiet