Movies: Experimental

A woman experiments with a Dreamachine, hoping to escape trouble. Within the light and dark of the machine, violent emotions awaken....

The short film "Light Matter" uses a physiological phenomenon in which the rapid change of light and dark triggers color perception in the brain that cannot be seen on the film itself. Attention. This film contains flashing lights which may not be su...

"Light animation and original poetry in this initiatic journey by Dennis Pies, who is now known as Sky-David." - Daily Psychedelic. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013....

Music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, 16mm color film by Paul Clipson....

"#5 from a series of 7... A dance leading to a dance. Super 8, silent, non-narritive."...

Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other....

A spontaneous street movie, a record of ‘swinging London’ where Erkki Kurenniemi had travelled to assess the commercial potential of his instrument DIMI-A....

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he mixed with artists who later became the Abstract Expressionists, encouraged New York’s emerging filmmaker...

A weekend in the city park is meant for recreational activities. During a twenty minute period, several men seek out a way to pass their time at a cruising spot located in the heart of a small peninsular grove....

Forming part of a film constellation that stretches from Chile across the Pacific, in which Malena Szlam trains her camera on far-flung volcanic landscapes — by turns barren and verdant — the dazzling in-camera multiple exposures of Archipelago of Ea...

A student videoperformance about a group of emotions of a girl in a ritual of tiredness and it’s obsolescence....

One morning, a girl wakes up and it seems she can make time stop with her eyes....

Now I shall sing the second kingdom there where the soul of man is cleansed, made worthy to ascend to Heaven. (Purgatorio: Canto I)...

A short experimental documentary that captures youth culture in Galway City through the conversations of the young people that inhabit it and their relationship with time....

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes....

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African American Express is an abstract animation exploring the impact of consumerism in the Black community. Told in the style of Soviet Propaganda, this animated short dissects the pattern of excessive materialism and consumption prevalent within t...

A mother feeds her son to the point of possessing him....

In this anxious and hectic time, Happy Life explores those unusual outlets that soothe the turmoil of the body and mind. In a meditative journey through these analgesic places, this documentary essay paints a portrait of a society in seek of meaning ...

Darkness and light, as seen by VIFF’s favourite Buddhist erotist. Part of the TOKYO LOOP animation anthology produced by ImageForum Japan....