Movies: Experimental

Double projection with two 16mm projectors. The images begin with two parallel screens. They consist of fragments of light flashing like bursts in the darkness. As the process progresses, each projector moves simultaneously and overlaps. The sound ac...

The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the artist's insight from experience with drugs and yoga. - The New York Times...

Naked women dancing and performing to the music of Paganini....

In 7 episodes, a subject traverses through various phases of existence. He fully explores different facets of the human condition— a calm birth, a stifled growth, an outrage against injustice, a cumulation of scars, and the return to innocence....

A photographer during the Soviet-Afghan war becomes obsessed with a mysterious figure that appears in his images every time the person photographed dies....

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...

A dreamlike and hallucinatory dive into the depths of the human psyche....

Egglantine loves salt on her eggs. Eggbert prefers pepper. Who blinks first in this playful Easter ritual?...

Experimental short-film made by brazilian students about the trópicalia and cinema novo movement. The narrative revolves around the song Géleia Geral from the album Tropicália ou Panis Et Circensis and also around the political, artistical and social...

A synthesis of sound and movement; colourful characters dance and move in repetitive patterns to percussive and melodic elements. A combination of motion and music that is hypnotic and beautiful. At first it feels structured and orderly but as more e...

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Searching for life in daily rituals, Losing Touch undertakes a shift in perception and presents the city as an ugly yet ecologically rich landscape. The film depicts the internal dialogue on coping with the grief and fear of ecological degradation, ...

The stress, pressure, and fast pace that we experience daily make us overlook our well-being. We live immersed in a constant fleetingness that wreaks havoc on our way of life. Oasis is a critique of the overwhelming mass society that consumes us and ...

A weary hitman— who must bash his own head with a hammer in order to enter a murderous state of parasomnia— is promised freedom from self-mutilation upon the completion of one last hit job....

In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are scratched directly on 35 mm film....

Breki, a 20-year-old man, returns to the neighbourhood where he grew up to make a documentary film about his own childhood....

Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both rounded and soft-edged shapes shot with black. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013....

A man sifts through his dreams, dilemmas, memories, secrets and the poetics of love as he harbours his greatest desire, to simply die....

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