Experimental Film Movies

exprerimental film

"My first 16mm, Sightreading, was shot in August 2022 in Minneapolis and Chicago. It uses images from three sources: black mattes held in front of...

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Informed by Taoist notions on the flow of nature, Freedom of Clouds is an experimental audiovisual poem composed of two visual languages which shift...

Little is known of Jean Speck (1860-1933) beyond the fact that he opened Zurich’s first cinema. Rouzbeh Rashidi and Jann Clavadetscher consider...

Surreal and mysterious, in equal parts absurd and intense, Mutual Admiration Society is part of the noted multi-film collaboration between actor...

Hands play a crucial role in communication. They are capable of revealing things that the face and/or language seek to hide or cannot express. Even...

The Black Film Series, a sequence of seven films made between 1965-69, is a primitive, sensory exploration of the medium, which ranges from total...

Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of...

A young man performs 'pranayama' sitting against a bleak wall. We observe him through a frame that seems to be connected to him in some way. As we go...

Lights whirl around the frame. Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Experimental film about the schizoid man by using double exposure. The title includes a double meaning, that is "now here" being here – and...

Three dancers and three towels lie in neat squares as if on a beach. The placid scene is disrupted by falling black pigment. The floor turns into a...

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

A confused and tormented young man (known only as 'The Patient') relates his dreams and memories to a mysterious and sadistic doctor. As The Patient...

1959 experimental short by Jim Davis.

Regrettably, the labour of projectionists is usually only considered by the audience when they ‘screw up’. This film offers an...

Experimental short 16mm film directed by Mike Henderson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.