Movies: Experimental

Experimental short film that explores the rise and decline of the Soviet Union, from the revolutionary spark of 1917 to the challenges and sacrifices endured during World War II, until its dissolution in 1991....

Video art by Vibeke Sorensen made at Calarts in 1989...

Folia is a double bass solo piece written in 1995 by Finnish composer Kaija Saarihao. The film tries to render an account of a personnal vision of the piece through the interpretation of a double bass player and the view of the two filmmakers. 16mm p...

Flashing lights illuminate black faces and dark eyes, oscillating between darkness and inverted lightness....

A meditation on isolation through paint textures, video collage and sound...

Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes, or algorithms, visualized in real time on the warp and weft of video's horizontal and vertical scannin...

Short experimental film by Ernesto Baca...

An experimental short film exploring themes of depression and existentialism through various empty spaces and poetic narration by a young French-speaking woman....

Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000....

The light and water of wintertime, viewed at 35,000 feet, over the U.S., somewhere between the East and West coasts....

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger...

An Assassin is cursed by the souls of the people he killed in the past. Now, he is a Grim Reaper, a demon who receives constant punishments because of his sins. In this context, an Entity appears, a neutral being who oversees the Assassin's curse. Co...

Inside a computer a space-time is revealed in which image and sound become numbers and motion manifests as rhythm, flow and chaos. This tracking and integration experiment removes the superficial identity of video to detect kinetic disturbances in ev...

Toby and his human are enjoying a peaceful afternoon, but a fleeting flash of light outside the window breaks the harmony. Something has changed....

An experimental documentary/animation hybrid exploring likeness scanning, AI, and what that means for identity....

Trash is an experimental short film about a man walking alone, suffering from the garbage he encounters along his path, offering a discomforting visual experience that mirrors the overwhelming information overload of the contemporary world....

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AMPM is a dystopian and experimental film in which analog TVs, through sound and imagery waves, have the power to transfer the user to an alternative reality based on their unconscious....

A psychadelic mental breakdown occurs. The lights are bright, the colours vivid, the images blurred, the mind absent....

With this abstract digital video, Murata presents viewers with a field of seething colors and line, within which a suggestive, Rorschach-like formation manages to retain its structure even as it is in a constant state of flux. The mesmerizing tableau...