Experimental Film Movies

state. is an exploration of liminal spaces, physical and emotional, from the perspective of a teenager. Unravelling through a desktop screen, the...

A short experimental film about communicating with each other using VHS and nostalgia and memories of time before.

A bleak, cryptic vision of life in contemporary Iran that eschews overt social commentary in favour of a very personal vision of stifled lives....

Hands play a crucial role in communication. They are capable of revealing things that the face and/or language seek to hide or cannot express. Even...

a lazy girl is depressed and confused of what to do next, after she realizes that she has grown up.

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

An experimental short film exploring themes of memory and history through a child's dream about a crow.

During an audio message sent to his daughter, a father reflects on how the recent discovery of dusty reels and scratchy VHS tapes capturing childhood...

The film poem about pesticides reflects on the return to the natural food chain, in which insect pest serve as food for the higher order. The...

An intimate reading experience of voice messages from my grandmother‘s sleepless moments. A portrait of personal memory as it is reimagined and...

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

Lasting over thirteen hours, Claerbout's film shows two men engaged in a discussion against the back-drop of a neoclassical house in southern France....

Three dancers and three towels lie in neat squares as if on a beach. The placid scene is disrupted by falling black pigment. The floor turns into a...

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

One of the series of labodoble experiments of the natural (organic) film developers. The structure of the film is based on the chemical formula of...

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

Experimental short 16mm film directed by Mike Henderson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

A loose poetic and personal retelling of Mishima's Runaway Horses.

An aspiring model sinks into lunacy because of her insecurities.