Experimental Film Movies

In an extended panoramic view—an "audioscopy" of Algiers—the camera’s eye scrutinizes various buildings and city-center...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

Experimental short film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015

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

An exploration of self-discovery, the subconscious mind, and the transformative power of embracing one’s solitude. Its mystical atmosphere...

An early experimental abstract animation, made by drawing directly on to 16mm film.

A tenant gets an unannounced visit from their landlord.

Chimney Book takes rubble from the Christchurch earthquake, and turns it into the building blocks of a film exploring life in the quake zone....

When he returns to his hometown, everything has changed to an unknown place. And, in the silence of the night, he will wake up at 3.15 a.m., haunted...

An aspiring model sinks into lunacy because of her insecurities.

An early Super 8 film by Heather McAdams, made while she was an MFA student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

A visual epic about subliminal longings and the aesthetics of suffering. A work of atmospheric images and sounds dedicated to the retina, the eardrum...

Meet Martí, an ordinary guy who spends his days living in a closed-off routine inside his house, and discover the reason that will make him...

Holly Blakey 2024

Traveling through dimensions, a young lady stumbles upon a mysterious, lone castle where the notion of time seems to be frozen. Drawn by the unknown...

Nima Yooshij (Iranian poet) for his son’s 1st birthday. He says: “my son, by now, you have seen a spring, a summer, an autumn and a...

A short experimental film about the human race taking over nature.

During an audio message sent to his daughter, a father reflects on how the recent discovery of dusty reels and scratchy VHS tapes capturing childhood...