Movies: Experimental

Cain suffers from an unusual ailment that induces the expulsion of a shimmering black substance, leading to his self-isolation and exclusion from society. His friend, Ridley, endeavors to alleviate his physical and mental distress and integrate him b...

An attempt to bring texts from Dante's "Divine Comedy" to life. Nine episodes from the Inferno with a concluding episode from the Purgatorio....

In the process of reclaiming what was lost, the boundary between inside and outside blurs, while the traces of absence become more distinct. The accumulated traces form their own body, moving toward toward another movement....

A cinematic and conceptually inventive film that explores the haunting memories of Asia’s late 20th-century modernization through the large-scale export of wigs during the Cold War. Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past....

A dream lament for a drowned world. Filmed in London, Zurich, San Francisco, Berkeley and Napa. Music by Grouper....

A drifter spends the night in an abandoned house and encounters a Window of Consciousness. This award-winning film combines elements of art house, avant-garde, surrealism, and experimental horror....

A psychadelic mental breakdown occurs. The lights are bright, the colours vivid, the images blurred, the mind absent....

A mysterious figure explores the uncanny and terrifying space between light and darkness....

A narrator reads a poem as a frustrated young Cameroonian migrant smashes an oddly shaped object in a British field whilst having flashbacks of intimate scenes of joy, family, community and acceptance....

Heavy is the Head is a short experimental film that navigates the journey of a Black boy coming of age in America. The story is an exploration of identity and the expectations that weigh on a boy learning to navigate a world that often sees him befor...

A short experimental film compiled of previously filmed 'rushes', exploring the art of creating in a sustainable way....

For the purpose of collection, preservation, and recording, numerous faces that existed in different times and places densely gather in a single space. Among them are photos of Koreans taken during the Japanese occupation era for physical measurement...

The day-to-day life of a young man struggling from depression, haunted by the unending rainstorm pounding against his house....

Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes, or algorithms, visualized in real time on the warp and weft of video's horizontal and vertical scannin...

Latest installment from the on-going collaboration between filmmaker Paul Clipson & musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Paul's Super8 films, shot entirely in New York City, channel the blissed out states of color drenched psychadellia explored by Brakage a...

Single frame exposures, color. Different image each frame, various items in the room, etc....

The film consists of sequences from what appear to be social documentary, people at a zoo, in a park, in the street in the snow; “nature” films of insects and reptiles; original, found and stock footage with no apparent associative or narrative funct...

A time-lapse animated meditation on geothermal energy, erosion, seismic activity and magma. Shot above the Yellowstone Caldera and amongst the Bryce Canyon hoodoos, the film explores how they connect these past cataclysms to the present endangered en...

A woman is repeatedly awoken by the sound of a man banging his head against a table....

A man on his way to an interview stumbles upon a surreal VOID, ANCIENT TEXTS, and ENIGMATIC FORCES....