Movies: Experimental

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Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000....

Two brothers come into contact after a very long time due to the discovery that the world is going to end. Together, they find themselves face-to-face with the inevitable dilemma to either save the reality of their relationship or the world's existen...

Terpsichore is a captivating exploration of dance as an art form, illuminating the passion, discipline, and vulnerability that transform movement into poetry. The documentary follows three distinct yet interconnected artists: Cece Trapani, an Irish d...

Filmed by Jonas Mekas from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building, “Empire” explores the passage of time without the use of characters or a traditional narrative. The film, that consists of one stationary shot of the Empire State Building, was made...

What is birth? It is said that being born into this world is the beginning of suffering: dukkha....

A short experimental film, exploring the concept that one small change can have a profound impact on a person's life....

A landscape film about isolation, fear, and the ever-presence of religion in rural Pennsylvania....

‘TAKBO’ is a short experimental film that studies the realities by which young Filipino women live....

"In the final format for MAGELLAN, Frampton had planned to disassemble these two films into twenty-four 'encounters with death' that were to be shown in five-minute segments twice a month. In their present state, seen together and roughly the length ...

A rat goes out to look for something in a tower....

As the day ends for a worn-out office worker, he encounters the mysterious gaze of a chimpanzee, sparking a silent exchange that prompts him to make an irreversible decision....

This is an amateur student mood piece comprised of footage I've filmed with my Camcorder at uni over the course of the first half of 2023. The prompt given for this was 'belonging' and so I've gravitated it around the premise of navigating a place th...

A misty afternoon returns a Mapuche couple to their wedding video. In their civil ceremony, they are noted as one of only two couples married in the indigenous language of Mapudungun....

Angolan director and screenwriter Pocas Pascoal reminds us that it’s time for a change, proposing through this film a look at colonialism, capitalism, and their impact on global biodiversity. We observe that the destruction of the ecosystem goes back...

An abstract animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the iotaCenter, in 2007....

A person living in Liberty City goes to work, have some food & gets back home....

A young man narrated the details of his dream from last night to his father about the celebration of demonstration, anger, and graduation....

A man goes through his daily routine, long after it has begun to destroy him....

An ode to stillness, in the form of an experimental documentary miniature, inspired by Vitosha mountain and Sofia...