Experimental Film Movies

A fascinating case of narrative deconstruction, THE SUICIDE SQUEEZE is a '40s style whodunit pressed through the wringer of an optical printer.

From afar, the suburban lifestyle may appear as a sort of utopia; but be sure to gaze beyond the veil, for dire horrors and troubled intimacies will...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

Experimental short, soundtrack of someone coughing and grasping for air, manipulated images of lung scans.

As a guitar screeches, the image comes into focus. Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

In A Radical Film, Canapa experimented with thin slices of black radish on unexposed film, a reference to film's roots. Further Radical is the same...

Flowing lights and colours are the focus of this abstract film shot with super-8 through a close-up lens. Helliwell`s homemade electronics provide...

Experimental short 16mm film directed by Mike Henderson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

A tenant gets an unannounced visit from their landlord.

Little is known of Jean Speck (1860-1933) beyond the fact that he opened Zurich’s first cinema. Rouzbeh Rashidi and Jann Clavadetscher consider...

She - La8 - loses herself and IT finds her again. A short film by Niko Moser

In his contribution to the On Art and Artists interview series, Nathaniel Dorsky (b.1943) begins by discussing his childhood love of the John Ford...

1977 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

P. Adams Sitney, Professor of Visual Art at Princeton University, wrote a short essay for Artforum International "Medium Shots: the films of Morgan...

A young man performs 'pranayama' sitting against a bleak wall. We observe him through a frame that seems to be connected to him in some way. As we go...

Building on a sound piece of the same name, The House She Flew In On: The Video uses the framework of The Wizard of Oz but creates a new narrative...

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