Movies: Experimental

Kaito lost his sister who was his lover in his childhood. He severed all contact with the outer world for twenty years and devoted his time to writing down memories of his sister. One day, a week before the manuscript is to be completed, a woman visi...

Music by Byron Westbrook, 16mm film by Paul Clipson....

Color test strip from developing tank....

Surrounded by old toys and distant memories, Alicia loses the notion of time in the house she grew up in. As the ghosts of her past confront her, she’ll have to face their torment before they wither her away...

8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt. Buko and is striving to protect the natural environment and cultural ground that inhabit the local area...

Snow falls. Eyes gaze out the window, crossing with the moon, while another eye, capturing that gaze, trembles. At the crossroads of glances that can never meet, the film moves on its own. The camera faces the window, and the projector casts its ligh...

A short film by Bryce Hodgson....

This expressive and experimental short film by Iain Delavan features two distinct emotionally significant videos, broken up by an ethereal synthetic universe. Quoted by Delavan as "the best thing [they] have ever made", this film has many layers h...

Follows experiments of fictional 19th century aristocrat Monsieur Lautréamont, a hypochondriac dandy committed to the pursuit of true aesthetic perfection which he calls “urge-ingeniousness”. The film focuses on the interplay between Lautréamont and ...

Continuous loop recording a screen showing Cybill Shepherd as Jacy Farrow in The Last Picture Show (1971)....

The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historica...

The model’s feet are uncomfortably squeezed into the heels, and her movements are slippery on slick silver liquid, before she slowly and ominously destroys the glass pane separating the subject from the viewer....

A man is sick and he doesn’t show himself. Three people don’t go to visit him and they show themselves....

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A cam girl sets up a camera to record herself cooking, blurring the lines between performance and intimacy as she unravels intrusive thoughts while waiting for her date to arrive....

A collection of memories from a tumultuous time at University....

An interconnected look at tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, as seen through labor practices that link an endangered salamander, mass-produced apples, and the evolving fields of genomics and machine learning....

A weekend in the city park is meant for recreational activities. During a twenty minute period, several men seek out a way to pass their time at a cruising spot located in the heart of a small peninsular grove....

Based upon a habitual fidget of the filmmaker involving the tags in his clothing, Reilly Mitchell explores the feelings of his past by removing something that has always stayed so close to him and turning it into something new....

A dreamy lo-fi pseudo-intellectual experimental short contemplating the role of the number 7 historically as a symbol across cultures filtered through the lens of 8th graders...