Movies: Experimental

After Luke's sister goes missing, he begins having dreams of a strange house. Unbeknownst to him, that house is owned by Alan Roscoe Jr., passed down to him after the recent death of his father. But something about this house isn't quite right, and A...

A child is attacked and turned into a chimera and must learn to navigate his strange world as an entirely new kind of being....

A possible alien presence in a filmschool campus turns the unknown present in the life of its students....

Three women engage with the medical system to confront strange dreams that may not belong to them. Early one morning, I regained consciousness in a hospital bed as the sun was coming up. I was sixteen. First thing I heard was the news: Princess Diana...

Set against nostalgic analog noise, this is an ultra-processed film which pays homage to lost media and the dead art of videotaped home movies. Taking place primarily in the United States, two strippers look into getting hired at a club in Colorado, ...

"Slaughter" is an experimental short film that delves into the archival and historical footage of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, depicting a symbolic narrative surrounding the ritualistic act of animal sacrifice, known as "Besmel." It serves as an a...

A director attempting to create an unconditionally truthful film becomes obsessed with the topic of death. In an intrusive way he relentlessly pushes dark scenarios of death aimed at his portraitures, creating a tension ridden and emotional set, blur...

Inside a computer a space-time is revealed in which image and sound become numbers and motion manifests as rhythm, flow and chaos. This tracking and integration experiment removes the superficial identity of video to detect kinetic disturbances in ev...

A surreal horror film following an obsessive actress who finds herself trapped within a cursed theatrical production where she is forced to choose between her career and her life....

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A woman evolves in a self-managed cell offering her the necessities of life. She escapes her routine through a virtual reality machine. During one of her "outings", a disturbance in the waking dream leads to a nightmarish phase. The woman then wonder...

A poetic Super 8mm film created by Rachael Wilson and Anderson Matthew set to accompany the live recital performance of Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi – Chant d’amour et de mort (1945)....

What appears at first glance to be a patterned floor of traditional Islamic tiles is in fact an intricate installation of hand dyed sand. In a light-filled room in an abandoned house, the artist steps into frame to sweep it away, breaking the illusio...

Cameron and Sylvia, a young couple in their early 20s, share a touching last evening together before he departs for Paris, where he plans to pursue his dream of becoming a chef. Fast forward four years later, where present-day screens reveal Sylvia ...

By light, or lack thereof, and sound, or lack thereof, I’ve tried to disassociate and then return to find something strange in the most familiar....

Sometimes it seems that the past is more present than the present itself. The film unfolds the story of a couple forced to break apart, mixing video and still images. Will the hero put the past behind him or cling to the unreachable past?...

An exploration of the space where femininity and criminality collide. The film collages archival footage clips culled from silent films, original footage and computer-generated imagery with a series of narratives drawn from true crime confessions, ea...

Blue Sunshine is a meditation on grief. Through dreamlike images and fictional scenarios, the director dialogues with her past and present, reflecting on the loss of her mother, the complex relationship with her father and the thought of her own fare...

Against a field of swaying and halting yellow vegetation, another processed field: the image of the eponymous subject (performed by painter Doris Cross) riles and emits unintelligibly to the viewer. Conjuring the mystical biblical character Lilith, S...

A concert film documenting a performance from the Houston artist Orpheus Von Doom....