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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Rigger

Dianne Ouellette | Canada | 2017 | 1:30:32 Rigger is a filmmaker’s journey through grief as she remembers her brother who died in a service rig accident in southeastern Saskatchewan through his friends and family. Cast Dianne Ouellette Producer Dianne Ouellette

Exoville

Mattias Bäcklin | Sweden | 2016 | 4:02 A City of Ruins brought to life by stagbeetles that have been cocooned under the ground for years developing into fullgrown beetles. They may have survived all the other creatures. Like the insects exoskeleton the city Exoville is both a protective shell and a sufaceexposer. Its inhabitants… Read more »

Waterfall

Robyn Base | Australia | 2015 | 2:01 A 5-minute video features local water fountains in slow motion, black and white, and screened through an overlay of cracked glass. The molten shapes rise and fall like a 1960’s lava lamp, forming and reforming with a sinuous viscosity. It shows the Scottsdale-based Stay Classy Transportation and… Read more »

The Twisted Doll

Andrew de Burgh | United States | 2017 | 7:49 Facebook “The Twisted Doll” follows Pooja Chopra, a disturbed young woman whose best friend Sarah sets her up on a date with Jack Gerrard, assistant to crooked real estate tycoon Jeffrey Delap. After the two seemingly hit it off, they start dating. Three months later, chaos enters their… Read more »

Structures of Nature

Martin Gerigk | Germany | 2017 | 18:39 German with English Subtitles “Structures of Nature” is an audiovisual journey through the inner worlds of experiences in the form of a three-part interaction between four narrators, twelve violoncellos, emergent sound events, and rhythmicized synaesthetic video sequences. A symbiosis of visual processes as well as natural and… Read more »

Methane Momma

Alain Rimbert | France | 2017 | 39:23 Life on Earth has disappeared because of global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, wars… Survivors wander in space aboard spacecraft. In one of them, MEL, a scientist biologist is sent to retrieve a space module becoming crazy while seeking traces of water on a unknown planet. While MEL seeks the prospecting… Read more »

May I? Remix#

Vasco Diogo | Portugal | 2017 | 3:47 may I ? remix# is the second version of may I dance ?, a video performance/video dance work based on the digital manipulation of non choreographic movements by the performer. Vasco Diogo works on the fragmentaion of the body in its relation to screen space and performance space. An audio-tactile… Read more »

Shells

Vasilios Papaioannu | Greece | 2017 | 11:50 A man, in the midst of a personal crisis, seeks solace in an icy forest where an abandoned horse leads him into a road of multiform sea waves of color. Producer Emma Piper-Burket

No Connection (El Yhteytta)

Risto-Pekka Blom | Finland | 2017 | 15:00 Finnish with English Subtitles Falling down due to a personal tragedy may save a person from themselves. Matti has drifted into a double life, unable of taking responsibility for his actions and their effects on those close to him. Producer Ville Rissanen

In the Shadow

Ferolyn Angell | United States | 2016 | 34:41 English, German with English Subtitles Dance, music, spoken word, and photographic imagery combine to explore the shadow cast upon generations by the Holocaust threat of annihilation Cast Erica Rose Neal Sara Finlay Bonnie Berger Jennifer Mack Julie Marie Muskat Stav Comay Jeremy Bensussan Producer Ferolyn Angell