Experimental Film Movies

  • 1970
    The Spear Thrower

    The Spear Thrower

    The Spear Thrower

    01970HD

    Lost, experimental short film of a spear thrower from 1893.

    The Spear Thrower
  • 2021
    Freedom of Clouds

    Freedom of Clouds

    Freedom of Clouds

    02021HD

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

    Freedom of Clouds
  • 1970
    Pressure

    Pressure

    Pressure

    01970HD

    A young woman is confronted with the conflict of growing up and pushed to her mental limits. Nothing seems to be working or going the way she...

    Pressure
  • 2021
    Chrysalis

    Chrysalis

    Chrysalis

    02021HD

    Chrysalis is an experimental film that shows the development of childhood trauma as one ages. It follows three sections of Lily’s life and her...

    Chrysalis
  • 2021
    Invisible

    Invisible

    Invisible

    02021HD

    Shot in black and white, Invisible merges performance art and personal documentary to reflect personal and shared experiences during the military...

    Invisible
  • 2021
    From Dark Matters

    From Dark Matters

    From Dark Matters

    02021HD

    An intimate reading experience of voice messages from my grandmother‘s sleepless moments. A portrait of personal memory as it is reimagined and...

    From Dark Matters
  • 1985
    Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage

    Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage

    Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage

    01985HD

    Stan Brakhage is a film maker whose work is shown mainly at film festivals. His work has been likened to poetry. Brakhage explains his techniques and...

    Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
  • 2020
    The Sacrifice of the Druids

    The Sacrifice of the Druids

    The Sacrifice of the Druids

    02020HD

    The Sacrifice of the Druids
  • 2019
    Suburbia

    Suburbia

    Suburbia

    02019HD

    From afar, the suburban lifestyle may appear as a sort of utopia; but be sure to gaze beyond the veil, for dire horrors and troubled intimacies will...

    Suburbia
  • 2020
    Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)

    Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)

    Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)

    02020HD

    Homo Sapiens Project (200) was completed in 2020 as part of the 20th anniversary of Experimental Film Society. This eight-hour experimental feature...

    Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)
  • 1969
    Oh! My Mother

    Oh! My Mother

    Oh! My Mother

    01969HD

    Writes Ando, "Oh! My Mother was the first work I made using a newly bought 16mm camera I had purchased with the writer Shuji Terayama in Paris. This...

    Oh! My Mother
  • 2020
    Further Radical

    Further Radical

    Further Radical

    02020HD

    In A Radical Film, Canapa experimented with thin slices of black radish on unexposed film, a reference to film's roots. Further Radical is the same...

    Further Radical
  • 2018
    Black Out

    Black Out

    Black Out

    02018HD

    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...

    Black Out
  • 2017
    Diabetes

    Diabetes

    Diabetes

    02017HD

    A narcissistic fitness fanatic argues with his significant other over breakfast about who is the healthier of the two.

    Diabetes
  • 2018
    Consequences of Man

    Consequences of Man

    Consequences of Man

    02018HD

    Human hands can be both destructive and healing, Jeffrie Po suggests in his experimental film with spiritual outreach. He portrays a human being as a...

    Consequences of Man
  • 2012
    Hades of Limbo

    Hades of Limbo

    Hades of Limbo

    02012HD

    A bleak, cryptic vision of life in contemporary Iran that eschews overt social commentary in favour of a very personal vision of stifled lives....

    Hades of Limbo
  • 2019
    Megalópolis

    Megalópolis

    Megalópolis

    02019HD

    Experimental short, soundtrack of someone coughing and grasping for air, manipulated images of lung scans.

    Megalópolis
  • 2017
    Self Decapitation

    Self Decapitation

    Self Decapitation

    02017HD

    Self Decapitation is a Janus-headed self-portrait by Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain in which death and desire each take possession of this...

    Self Decapitation
  • 1970
    The Cry of the Banshee

    The Cry of the Banshee

    The Cry of the Banshee

    01970HD

    An experimental documentary on the Magdalene Laundry Institutions in Ireland, told through the myth of the banshee.

    The Cry of the Banshee
  • 2018
    Sensory Warp

    Sensory Warp

    Sensory Warp

    02018HD

    Short experimental film by Alvaro Chior. Exhibited at various art spaces, including Porto dell’Arte (Bologna, Italy), Spectral Microcinema...

    Sensory Warp