Experimental Movies

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...

In this 60 second art piece, a dog named Layla is called upon by nature to defend harmless daisy flowers from the wild grass that is conquering their...

Grappling with the complexities of mental health and trauma in a digital age that feels isolating and overwhelming, a young person embarks on a...

At night, a woman at different ages loves, suffers and frees herself. She’s called Ophelia.

This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many...

Drawing animation, Reshooting 8mm Film.

A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the...

The model’s feet are uncomfortably squeezed into the heels, and her movements are slippery on slick silver liquid, before she slowly and...

Robert Estragon has worked his way to the top of the food chain as a doctor in the city, but it has driven him to self-imposed delusion. Here, we...

After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid...

a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage

A film essay that intertwines the director's gaze with that of her late mother. Beyond exploring mourning and absence as exclusively painful...

Christine Vachon’s story of a man haunted by the grotesque memory of having stepped on a dead animal's carcass is an artistic tour de force ...

Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see...

A punk sapphic couple attempt to wipe away their drug debt in Adelaide's seedy southern suburbs.

A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.