Experimental Cinema Movies

Phantasma on the 5th birthday of Alexander Kluge.

Portrait of a Mexico City neighborhood where pages and pages are printed, and little by little, words appear. Máquinas de Palabras is a...

A movie about a fish. An experiment in narrative using digital footage of fish, mollusks, and crustaceans in a fish tank.

The first Filipino silent, horror and science fiction movie. From the imagination of Khavn.

An exploration of entering and leaving consciousness from the perspective of non-human bodies trapped in everlasting cycles of abuse.

The lovingly compiled collection of shells, the life's work of Maria Cândida Consolado Macedo, comes to life in a rhythmic ritual of...

A 16mm experiment using negatives, hand-scratched film, and the rhythm of manual editing to call upon the experience of moments beyond reality.

A young adult's first-hand account of "accidentally becoming human again" after, and with, trauma induced depression. Lo-fi, vulnerable, and uniquely...

An absurd man, feeling hopeless, decides to end his life. The night before, he dreams of a perfect world with no pain. In this dream, he sees how...

From Muybridge and Porter, passing by John Ford and Howard Hawks, all the way to Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers, a story of a...

This motion picture photogram was made during a 5 hour plunge into the darkroom; a procession of herbs.

Short by György Kepes.

An experimental re-edit of Jack Frost, starring Michael Keaton.

A surreal mosaic pieced together from fractured memories and childhood recollections as told by an unnamed narrator who relives a traumatic incident...

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

From a high school art class to a local radio station, the day-to-day lives of several women coalesce into a poetic documentation of women’s...

Outtakes, commentary from Zefier's third film: Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike.

Inspired by a tumultuous period in the director's relationship with her mother, the film draws a poignant analogy between the phases of their...

When it comes to adulthood, some societal assembly is required.

During an audio message sent to his daughter, a father reflects on how the recent discovery of dusty reels and scratchy VHS tapes capturing childhood...