Movies: Experimental film

  • 1970
    Kenneth Anger: Film as Magical Ritual

    Kenneth Anger: Film as Magical Ritual (1970)

    Kenneth Anger: Film as Magical Ritual

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    Anger discusses his Aleister Crowley-inspired theories of art: How he views his camera like a wand and how he casts his films, preferring to consider his actors, not human beings but as elemental spirits. In fact, he reveals that he goes so far as to...

    Kenneth Anger: Film as Magical Ritual
  • 2023
    Cotton Candy Chocolate River

    Cotton Candy Chocolate River (2023)

    Cotton Candy Chocolate River

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    You and AI at the end of the world....

    Cotton Candy Chocolate River
  • 2025
    Eden

    Eden (2025)

    Eden

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    An experimental, mixed-media retelling of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. Of course, when a story this old is told countless times throughout the centuries, a few important details are bound to get lost in translation......

    Eden
  • 2023
    Speak To Me Of What I Know

    Speak To Me Of What I Know (2023)

    Speak To Me Of What I Know

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    Speak To Me Of What I Know is a short experimental film shot on a Super8. The idea of lack of communication is expressed through an intimate relationship, more specifically the men of the film. The themes of miscommunication develop throughout the fi...

    Speak To Me Of What I Know
  • 2022
    Metaverse of Madness

    Metaverse of Madness (2022)

    Metaverse of Madness

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    The world is getting more modern, people are starting to try to use metaverse technology. This gave rise to new ways of having fun, worshiping gods, and even strange ways of living....

    Metaverse of Madness
  • 2020
    Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)

    Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020) (2020)

    Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)

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    Homo Sapiens Project (200) was completed in 2020 as part of the 20th anniversary of Experimental Film Society. This eight-hour experimental feature is constituted from short film experiments made between 2000 to 2010. These films have already undergo...

    Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)
  • 1976
    Projection Instructions

    Projection Instructions (1976)

    Projection Instructions

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    Regrettably, the labour of projectionists is usually only considered by the audience when they ‘screw up’. This film offers an alternative opportunity. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014....

    Projection Instructions
  • 2024
    Walking

    Walking (2024)

    Walking

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    Tommy sets out to document walking. He meets a colorful cast of characters, attaches microphones to his feet, and contends with what it means to capture movement on film....

    Walking
  • 1988
    now here

    now here (1988)

    now here

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    Experimental film about the schizoid man by using double exposure. The title includes a double meaning, that is "now here" being here – and "nowhere" to not be anywhere. In this lyrical work, Jun Kurosawa analyzed himself schizophrenically....

    now here
  • 2009
    Tarciso’s Analogy

    Tarciso’s Analogy (2009)

    Tarciso’s Analogy

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    35mm film transferred to 16mm, colour, no sound, 4'11"...

    Tarciso’s Analogy
  • 2010
    Absence of Mind

    Absence of Mind (2010)

    Absence of Mind

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    Imagine if David Lynch cast a pensioner or a mummified figure from Pompeii as the star of an experimental short film, and that's what 'Absence' comes close to....

    Absence of Mind
  • 2015
    Ganymede

    Ganymede (2015)

    Ganymede

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    Experimental video in which the viewer is immersed in an abstracted world of rippling waves, vibrating foliage, and migrating populations. Organic textures continuously reshape each frame, conjuring up granular forms, nest-like structures, and undula...

    Ganymede
  • 1986
    Der junge Eskimo

    Der junge Eskimo (1986)

    Der junge Eskimo

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    A visual epic about subliminal longings and the aesthetics of suffering. A work of atmospheric images and sounds dedicated to the retina, the eardrum and the soul. The young Inuit - the sea seems to have washed him up one day, to some place forgotten...

    Der junge Eskimo
  • 2025
    Winter Dream

    Winter Dream (2025)

    Winter Dream

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    A landscape film about winter....

    Winter Dream
  • 1969
    EXILE

    EXILE (1969)

    EXILE

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    An immigrant's last attempt to restore childhood innocence on strange lands....

    EXILE
  • 1968
    Emergency: The Living Theatre

    Emergency: The Living Theatre (1968)

    Emergency: The Living Theatre

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    a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Mysteries” and smaller pieces, “Paradise Now” and “Frankenstein.” “The fusion of Brown’s freewheeling direct cinema and the Living Theatre’s performance f...

    Emergency: The Living Theatre
  • 2022
    ECDYSIS

    ECDYSIS (2022)

    ECDYSIS

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    Dusk or dawn, stuck in subconsciousness until we can’t separate between the true self and appearances. Is it even possible that we will be free from our own sake?...

    ECDYSIS
  • 2023
    M Soup,

    M Soup, (2023)

    M Soup,

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    M Soup, (2023) by Stephanie Mavi Garcia Panclas (SMGP), is their first experimental short film. M Soup, follows the character ‘M’ played by SMGP themselves, in which they play around with appearing hyper-masculine and hyper-feminine. This experimenta...

    M Soup,
  • 1969
    burning dreaming

    burning dreaming (1969)

    burning dreaming

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    Burn flowers burn ,as dreams.Dreams burn down like they were never meant to bloom....

    burning dreaming
  • 2012
    Jean Speck (1860-1933)

    Jean Speck (1860-1933) (2012)

    Jean Speck (1860-1933)

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    Little is known of Jean Speck (1860-1933) beyond the fact that he opened Zurich’s first cinema. Rouzbeh Rashidi and Jann Clavadetscher consider the flittering black and white ghosts and shadows that he left in his wake in their phantasmagorical exper...

    Jean Speck (1860-1933)