Experimental Film Movies

1965, black- and-white, 8 min., double-screen projection.

Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of...

A vivid sampler of the great Barcelona architect-sculptor’s work in situ, Sokoloff constantly is seeking out the most anthropomorphic images...

An experimental short film exploring themes of memory and history through a child's dream about a crow.

Thirty years ago making experimental films, I used a technique which breaks footage into blocks of one second, divides each block into four,...

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...

An experimental student film centered around a young woman named Penelope. Or is Penelope dead?

Protective Coloration shows Fisher seated at a mottled table. He wears short-sleeved hospital garb, surgical green ‘scrubs’. Nose-clips...

Lasting over thirteen hours, Claerbout's film shows two men engaged in a discussion against the back-drop of a neoclassical house in southern France....

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

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

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...

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

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

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

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

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

1977 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

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

1959 experimental short by Jim Davis.