Experimental

Experimental cinema or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms and alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working.

U.S. and foreign films

The English film title, original title, country of origin and production year are listed. Foreign-language films are subtitled in English.

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Still Mad as Hell

Jim Lively | United States | 2016 | 4 m 45 s The movie “Network” premiered in 1976 and won a slew of Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay. It also possesses one of the most memorable monologues in motion picture history, when Howard Beale played brilliantly by Peter Finch galvanizes the nation, persuading his viewers… Read more »

The Case of the Deranged Sommelier

Jim Lively | United States | 2016 | 10 m 47 s An experimental art film that is part Film Noir and part slasher flick featuring a wine sommelier that enjoys listening to old episodes of Perry Mason whilst he engages in hand to hand combat with an oil painting. Does he just hate art or… Read more »

Time Gaps

Cindy Zhang | United States | 2016 | 9 m The story takes place at a male protagonist who is tired of his mundane routine. From a point, he starts to lose his important items, which makes him suspect that someone is after him. The moment he figures the person who stole his stuff is… Read more »

At Sea

Diane Fellows | United States | 2016 | 4 m 42 s “At Sea” is a remembrance of my father. Remembrance exists between objective observation and intimacy. Events observed, and objects found often trigger a memory, visually and aurally, disconnected from what is experienced in the moment.  “At Sea” presents travels of night-time traffic moving… Read more »

[cthorsion scrypt fantomsens]

Chris Boyd | United Kingdom | 2015 | 5 m 28 s Facebook | Twitter Excavating the intimate interrelations between writing and death, a virtual ka-mera scans a phantom shrouded figure in an anechoic chamber. Linear text bursts into an asignifying swarm where the letter C escapes and descends into a presignifying regime, breaks free from its carapace/shroud… Read more »

Anexperimentalviralvlog – the Movie Remix # !

Vasco Diogo | Portugal | 2016 | 12 m 52 s A unique short experimental remix of 15 vlog episodes, originally posted on youtube, based upon a reflexion on identity, manipulation, truth and beauty, that blurs popular influences with performance video and video art processes and ideas. Self-representation document made with a DIY spirit and a urge… Read more »

Fall

Bradley Rappa | United States | 2016 | 6 m 50 s Fall, is a process-oriented, high definition experimental film that incorporates time-lapse digital photography, 16mm contact printing, HD video, and an elaborate sound design to allegorically portray the detrimental environmental costs of rampant and unsustainable technological development. This consumer-driven industrialization is quickly upsetting the balance of a… Read more »

Peace Pilot

Tracy Claybrook | United States | 2012 | 20 m Facebook Peace Pilot, is a monumental film featuring four meditative short films about peace which depict the four stages of the hero’s journey. Each film is a reflection on the hero’s journey toward personal, communal, and global transformation and peace.

Stille Vann

Annette Wirtz | Germany | 2015 | 14 m 3 s English, Persian with English Subtitles The short film “Stille Vann” was created in an inclusive working process by about 30 artists with and without handicaps. The band members of “Stille Vann”, a project by the inclusive institution Barner 16 from Hamburg, invented their own alter ego for… Read more »

Villusion

Colleen Keough | United States | 2015 | 9 m 5 s VILLUSION explores the illusion and artifice of the screen. A microscopic camera scans the pages of a vintage Pin-Up Girl publication revealing the patterns and textures of analogue printing methods. The magnified view speaks to the mechanisms of media and the illusion and artifice of image… Read more »