Experimental Movies

Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected,...

This experimental film was created via one pass through the camera without special visual effects. Each frame of the film was taken at night via a...

A conceptual live concert by Diamanda Galás, "Plague Mass" continues the themes of the suffering and misery of the infected found in her...

Angolan director and screenwriter Pocas Pascoal reminds us that it’s time for a change, proposing through this film a look at colonialism,...

How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while...

A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the...

A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in an infinite fall through a...

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...

A Zapotec man from the future tells the story of how in the 21st century a new invasion of “foreigners” was afflicting his village. While...

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

Cracking open the human-camera body.

An experimental short film about sensory seeking behaviour in childhood. Filmed on VHS.

A bartender takes on the physical form of her imagined alter egos.

An experimental horror film told entirely from above the bathroom sink.

The wind carries an aspiring healer into a chaotic, virulent parallel world. Paralyzed by a familiar universe that is gradually becoming distorted,...

Experimental short shot on reel to reel video tape and preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Whilst a boy mourns the passing of his younger brother, hope of unity is found in his grief.

Skin Shade Night Day explores the daily routine and rituals practised by the artist’s Cambodian-Australian family, which are reperformed and...