Experimental Film Movies

The movement of colourful dots, streaks and scratches embellished directly on a film roll synchronise with the cheerful jazz music by Johnny Dodds...

Short experimental film by Alvaro Chior. Exhibited at various art spaces, including Porto dell’Arte (Bologna, Italy), Spectral Microcinema...

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Fragments of interesting people and things amongst a handful of D train stops in Queens, New York. Filmed on Super 8 mm.

Set against an operatic soundscape, period@period is a sensual interplay of sound and image that focuses on the anonymous protagonist’s monthly...

TAMAN HUTAN Chapter Four: The Wound Response focuses on the rubber craze of the 20th century through both archival documentation of wages and an...

Lights whirl around the frame. Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

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

An early experimental abstract animation, made by drawing directly on to 16mm film.

A boy stands in a field, flying his kite.

Surveillance helicopters and the police chase astral travellers. Astral Pegasus is part of the anthology ‘I Went to a Party Alone’ in...

In the middle of the night, a sleepless subject rediscovers the ability to use their hands to produce and play with shadows on the ceiling.

If the fly eats the flower, does the fly become the flower?

Colourful lines and geometric figures move and change to the notes of a disjointed Wilhelmus [Dutch national anthem]. As the film progresses the...

As an ode to her grandfather, choreographer Daria Titova returns to the rural land he cherished in Sokur, Russia. Through movement and evocative...

An early Super 8 film by Heather McAdams, made while she was an MFA student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

A man is given a letter by a stranger which causes an extreme sense of urgency to get to a very particular location. This is an experimental film...