Experimental Movies

Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN

Photos taken with pinhole camera, sky + clouds. Swirling animation like smoke against a black background.

Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a m...

Sausage City illustrates Beckett's additive cycle process. Constantly evolving rectangular shapes provide a foundation for an environment inhabited by...

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation i...

A London park and artist Chris Welsby runs repeatedly into frame and off into the distance; his actions contrast with the more leisurely activities of...

The box from the film strip becomes an arbitrary plot of action relating to the mysterious phenomena taking place in the Bermuda Triangle. Experimenta...

An urban fairy tale in which three characters negotiate a space where myth and reality constantly collide. Syed uses the character of The Lady of Shal...

Unfolding depicts the gendered space of the launderette as both a site of oppression and possible resistance. “I was interested in making a film about...

Two time-lapse sequences of boats in an estuary, the tide rising and falling.

E3 (∞, E = eternity, 3 = 3 month) is the first work trying to capture my drawing and painting style into a moving picture. It captures the beginning,...

A film by Paul Clipson.

The light and water of wintertime, viewed at 35,000 feet, over the U.S., somewhere between the East and West coasts.

Christopher Becks’s Pan of the Landscape uses gorgeous Brakhage-like painting on film to un-Brakhage-like ends: spectacular skies combine with the slo...

"Leiberg embarks on a search for the interaction between painting and improvised music, tinkering with sound collages sets language and sounds against...

From LUX: "Welsby adopts a system of camera movements to chart the movement of tides, waves and sky".

"Light animation and original poetry in this initiatic journey by Dennis Pies, who is now known as Sky-David." - Daily Psychedelic. Preserved by the...

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement] returns to...