Experimental Movies

Trinity wanders through Friedhof Dreifaltigkeit (Trinity Cemetery) in Berlin looking for the key to her heart.

Marie-Hélène, my mother, is retiring and takes with her her memories, her anxieties and the mental burden of having raised three...

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

The nature of bird and man.

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed...

Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both...

Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approaching...

A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.

At the center are takes which do not change - a tree in a field in Vermont, U.S.A. Since the film was shot over a period of fifty days, the single...

An animation film, made without the use of a camera, in which "boogie" played by Albert Ammons and "doodle" drawn by Norman McLaren combine to make a...

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...

Outtakes, commentary from Zefier's third film: Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike.

Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike is Zefier's third film.

Starting in the late 1930s, illustrator and experimental animator Douglass Crockwell created a series of short abstract animated films at his home in...

Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and...

With the lack of personal video archive, Youhanna (the filmmaker) creates false memories using lost home videotapes shot between the 1990s and 2000s...