Experimental Movies

A short experimental film about dementia.

Blue Sunshine is a meditation on grief. Through dreamlike images and fictional scenarios, the director dialogues with her past and present, reflecting...

In the tradition of experimental genres such as the cut-up, collage, permutation, altered book, & erasure poem, ‘Burning Batteries’ dissects the idea...

"Lost in the Black Hole" is Bangladesh's first-ever symbolic cult horror short film, where the director/artist has experimented on the five metaphoric...

A short experimental documentary about love

The enduring romance of the lines. A visual exploration of Dave Brubeck's jazz classic "Take Five".

Social media corrupts the mind of a young University student--but can he escape the psychological torment of alienation?

A 57-minute long-form music video illustrating the subjects including magic, the nature of reality and chaos - and honouring the works of Robert Anton...

An oblique remake of Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground (1951),Ray’s Place follows Ray from his haunts in New York City to Binghamton where, exiled f...

Surrounded by old toys and distant memories, Alicia loses the notion of time in the house she grew up in. As the ghosts of her past confront her, she’...

Jonas Mekas recites poems of his, both in English and Lithuanian. Exclusive Mekas interview by the poet Sparrow. The legendary poet-film critic and fi...

Darkness and light, as seen by VIFF’s favourite Buddhist erotist. Part of the TOKYO LOOP animation anthology produced by ImageForum Japan.

Propulsive Polish avant-garde animation following clouds of shapes that resemble nebulae or stellar surfaces.

Shot on three cameras over the life cycle of one snowfall, Decaying Vessel is an expression of transness and the feeling of being stuck in a body boun...

Short experimental video art by Barbara Sykes.

Lye created a series of scratched images in the 1950s – more regular or geometric than his usual style – to accompany Rock ‘n’ Rye, a track by jazz gu...

Begins as a whimsical piece with 'sheets' of lines running down the screen, progressing into more and more complex geometic patterns but without devia...

Created in Blade & Sorcery. The third and hopefully final film in Emmy's "Dysphoria Trilogy"