Movies: Experimental cinema

Going, returning; the anticipation of interruption....

This poetic experimental documentary is a tribute to the multifaceted life of Brianna, Jorge Lozano's daughter, a collaborative reflection intertwining fiction film archives, acting, and photographs to evoke memories and breathe life into moments and...

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Ananias, a San Francisco Bay Area artist and immigrant, performs the folkloric Danza de los Viejitos (the Dance of the Old Men). Originally from Michoacán, Mexico, where the dance originates, Ananias interprets its movements through the lens of his s...

On setting and forgetting....

Christmas Eve in rapid camera....

3-minute experimental animation based on the techniques of John Whitney....

Shot on Super 8mm film and digital video, Lamiai is an experimental dream film. Lamiai is loosely derived from the Lamia in Greek mythology as well from John Keats’s poem Lamia and Peter Gabriel’s song The Lamia from Genesis’s The Lamb Lies Down on B...

Boyan's thoughts among the grasslands....

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Heart Murmurs is a poetic dialogue between the filmmaker and Dean, a young man living in Hong Kong. In reflecting on his experience living with a congenital disability and HIV during the first years of the COVID pandemic, Dean expresses his sense of ...

A 16mm experimental short film loosely following a cormorant as it attempts to dry its wings....

“The lakes, their rounds palms, they drowned the face of the Sky: I have turned the sphere to look at the Sky". Victor Segalen. Estelas...

What are they? What do they seek? When all the lights go out, they will wander. And you will never see them....

Halcion is the title of the most recent work from Austria´s most productive film studio - that of Dietmar Brehm. The film is hereby named after a sleeping pill which Brehm explained in a letter "induces pastel colored dreams and watery images". Its a...

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Making Space is a film about trying to find oneself in the constant flow of change and renewal, navigating through the anxiety that comes with not knowing where ‘home’ is, and finally letting go of the need of finding one single person, place, or ans...

A sensual hommage to Germany's most productive queer filmmaker, Rosa von Praunheim....