Movies: Experimental

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU....

A nuclear family sits in front of the television. The phone rings....

A dance by bodies of shifting colors....

A passenger picks up a woman at dawn who is to be a guest until midnight. Their journey begins......

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A stream of mysterious rituals and symbols are encountered as a young boy journeys to school in the fantastical world of Kshya Tra Ghya....

Experimental short film about a couple...

Above all, an experiment. Two identical films mirror each other. The only thing that differentiates between them is colour and sound, which is simply reversed. Through the use of just colour and sound, each part invokes unique sensations in the viewe...

Filmed by Jonas Mekas from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building, “Empire” explores the passage of time without the use of characters or a traditional narrative. The film, that consists of one stationary shot of the Empire State Building, was made...

Extended editing techniques based on Land’s experiments affect the viewer’s sensory perceptions....

Essentieel (1964) is a short experimental film made by Belgian abstract painter Jef Verheyen in collaboration with poet Paul De Vree. A cinematic equivalent of Verheyen’s attempts in representing the warmth and vibrations of light in his monochrome o...

What could possibly be more important than feeding your daughter?...

Spoiled seven-year-old Vanka lives a carefree childhood. Going with his father to the Maslenitsa holiday, Vanka meets a runaway deserter in the forest, about whom he tells the adults. This act instantly deprives Vanka of his childhood, and the father...

A man begins to sense that every moment of his life is being watched, not just by cameras, but by something deeper. As paranoia grows, the line between surveillance and obsession starts to blur. “REC🔴” is a psychological short that explores control,...

A silent city symphony, projected from gorgeous black and white 16mm film. Materia vibrante lets the resonating frequencies of the urban environment create the inaudible hum that keeps the engines of society running, absent of the inhabitants running...

The history and myth of a ghost island off the SW African coast are told through a dystopian parable, in which a character undergoes brainwashing to escape the burden of memory in a world he no longer relates to....

The restlessness creeps into a claustrophobic situation where a typist confronts the recorded voice of the writer she works for....

Deemed "too ambient for broadcast" by MTV's AMP, Thaemlitz' first video "Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside)" contrasts cinematic footage from drag performances in upstate New York with highly processed digital audio from his CD "Couture Cos...

Born from steel and glass Kino Kopf is created by two inventors. They are assembled by their mother, a nurturing artist, and their Father a greedy entrepreneur. Kino Kopf is the first of its kind a sentient humanoid VHS camera. They are given a life ...

An unknown girl breaks out of her daily grind by undergoing an intense audio-visual trip....