Experimental Cinema Movies

My great-grandmother, Frieda Riesenfeld, recounts moving into her first apartment in the United States after escaping from Germany in 1938.

In the whimsical Dreamworks (1983), a narrator recites a parody of Freud that analyzes the dreams of cats against abstract images that seem to...

The second film from Shahriar Hanife's series of experimental etudes, an Iranian researcher.

Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in...

The video presents 111 segments of text, single words, and found visual material, still as well as moving images, arranged so as to offer a series of...

An experimental film that explores the minds of a teenage couple experiencing an unintended pregnancy and their struggles with social pressure,...

The corner of a street is matched and mixed with the chant of a bird recorded on that same street. A symbiotic relationship is triggered: the rapid...

The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered...

A tour de force exercise in optical printing shot in the Chicago Loop

Lou is a young man in trouble who becomes paranoid because of the pressure of two mysterious judges.

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".

An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances...

Students turn the world upside down in their quest to find Krit, a missing young boy. They embark on a challenging journey filled with unexpected...

Recovered Zulueta short.

experiments of light.

16mm hand-painted film.

Light Pharmacy: 4.1 is part of a series of 'film haiku' concerned primarily with the reflection and refraction of sunlight, and dream...

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to...

The title alludes to Denmark’s Law no. 533 of April 29 2015, originating with the Social Democrats, which prohibits sexual conduct between...

An experimental short film from director Luis Zamora, born in the aftermath of the July 2024 protests in Venezuela. An attempt to turn fear, dreams,...