Movies: Experimental

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000....

"Light from the Mesa" from Barn Owl's album Ancestral Star....

Mixing visual, sound, and storytelling elements from different eras and regions, "Shadowplay" depicts a world filled with dysfunctional work culture through an unorthodox conflict between an office worker and her shadow, and seeks a hidden connection...

Abstract shapes morph in and out of focus....

An intimate portrayal of love that penetrates through the wounds of language. Chinese and Korean written down on mirrors, broken apart and reattached together. In the spinning and oscillating, words collapse into sculptures, meanings transcended by w...

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Music by Austin Cesear, 16mm film by Paul Clipson....

The shot’s eerily static, but the house isn’t quite right. There’s no mold in the wood, maybe it’s the bug!...

I enjoy religion, I appreciate belief systems and how they offer structure to people's lives. I also appreciate how spirituality manifests itself in Asian cultures as this almost earthbound presence guiding people through every day life and when they...

A paranoid man struggling with his mental health finds himself alone and scared of government drones, which may or may not even exist....

The story takes place in the year 1977 about the hero fleeing into the forest during the time when soldiers, police suppressed the communists. One day he meets the first villagers, everyone is afraid, but when the hero observes and analyzes that this...

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen...

Here is an actor, one who has been asked to dwell in the perilous gap between text and image. In the voids where traces of the past have been erased by an unknown error, she begins to assemble her own script....

An intimate glimpse into 3 years of serene moments, compiling video, polaroids and other things that were lying around when editing....

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....

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes....

A short film by Bryce Hodgson....

This is a hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to achieve various effects of brief fades and fluidity-of-motion, and makes partial use of painted frames in repetition (for "close-up" of textures). The tone of the film is pri...

In a not so distant future artificial intelligence speaks to suffocating humanity. On the last journey, humanity is escorted by surreal entities, through twists and turns that led to humanity’s last breath....

It is a documentary about mostly inner-city birds. It is meant to examine their lives in a more metropolitan context as they become increasingly tangled in our everyday lives....