Movies: Experimental surrealism

A young woman wakes up on a train going to an unknown destination. She has no recollection of how she got there or where she is. She finds herself in a vast city; a forest of steel and iron and concrete, wandering the dark streets....

An experimental short film exploring the interplay between sound and visual discomfort, recorded in a dance hall....

Filmed over a period of a week, Drizzle showcases nature and our world in an experimental lens and through different days and weather conditions. The plot remains stagnant while the message remains clear....

moony and Joey Brodnax present WARNING HIGH CUBE - a film accompanying the release of moony’s debut album of the same name. After amassing an impressive collection of genre-spanning EPs scouring depths of emotion, pain, anger, relief, and hope, burge...

During his visit to a graveyard, a young man is suddenly projected into a dream-like realm. Empty and removed from time, the familiar landscape forces him to confront certain pains when blood suddenly effuses from his hands....

A neurodivergent man is stuck in the web of an abusive relationship, unable to free himself from his lovers grasp....

An experimental, non-sensical comedy about bringing a stone age man back to our time, made with the app “Plotagon”....

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

An AI takes millions of inputs and rehashes them into something semi-new. The same thing human brain does when sleeping. Humans call it "dreams"....

A surrealist animation of the Sarah Lawrence College art building....

This experimental short film follows a used car salesman... or a politician... or a man painting a toilet red....

Utopian symbolic playgrounds from memories are interconnected through sharp, flickering lights....

Sebastian, an ambitious magazine creator wants to explore the world and document his experiences. During his maladaptive daydreams, reality comes crashing down on him....

A woman commits a violent suicide in a bathroom, involving the use of Harakiri. "I wonder how it feels to cut your own stomach open. Even though it is very scary, I dream about it as if someone deep inside me is provoking me. Just thinking about what...

A forgotten faceless celebrity ascends into heaven along the path of self-discovery and through a land of faded memory....

A series of interviews with young adults about their fears and frustrations....

A nurse experiments on a sick patient, leading to an unfortunate demise. A depiction of the relationship between birth, infection, and decay under a surrealist lens using heavily edited archive footage....

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A woman lies dead, covered by nature, in the Garden of Eden....

A young woman watches TV with her cat in the room. A dying man explores what's left of his psyche....