Experimental Film Movies

  • 2021
    Chrysalis

    Chrysalis

    Chrysalis

    02021HD

    Chrysalis is an experimental film that shows the development of childhood trauma as one ages. It follows three sections of Lily’s life and her struggl...

    Chrysalis
  • 2021
    Freedom of Clouds

    Freedom of Clouds

    Freedom of Clouds

    02021HD

    Informed by Taoist notions on the flow of nature, Freedom of Clouds is an experimental audiovisual poem composed of two visual languages which shift i...

    Freedom of Clouds
  • 2021
    Invisible

    Invisible

    Invisible

    02021HD

    Shot in black and white, Invisible merges performance art and personal documentary to reflect personal and shared experiences during the military coup...

    Invisible
  • 2021
    From Dark Matters

    From Dark Matters

    From Dark Matters

    02021HD

    An intimate reading experience of voice messages from my grandmother‘s sleepless moments. A portrait of personal memory as it is reimagined and linger...

    From Dark Matters
  • 2020
    The Sacrifice of the Druids

    The Sacrifice of the Druids

    The Sacrifice of the Druids

    02020HD

    The Sacrifice of the Druids
  • 2015
    Ganymede

    Ganymede

    Ganymede

    02015HD

    Experimental video in which the viewer is immersed in an abstracted world of rippling waves, vibrating foliage, and migrating populations. Organic tex...

    Ganymede
  • 2012
    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)

    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)

    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)

    02012HD

    “Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days”, is a four hour feature film by Maximilian Le Cain and Rouzbeh Rashidi. Structured in two sections or ‘takes’...

    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
  • 2016
    period@period

    period@period

    period@period

    02016HD

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

    period@period
  • 1970
    King David

    King David

    King David

    01970HD

    [1970/2003, color, 7.5 min] Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

    King David
  • 2013
    Homo Sapiens Project (100)

    Homo Sapiens Project (100)

    Homo Sapiens Project (100)

    02013HD

    HSP 100 is a portrait of experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain. As Le Cain discusses his life, work and relationship with cinema, Rashidi envelops...

    Homo Sapiens Project (100)
  • 1987
    The Conversation

    The Conversation

    The Conversation

    01987HD

    Stop-motion experimental short where two men communicate with one another, talk on the telephone, smoke cigarettes, and contort themselves. Produced 1...

    The Conversation
  • 1986
    The Garden

    The Garden

    The Garden

    01986HD

    The Garden is an experimental work that describes the inner worlds of two sisters manifested through their connection with the garden outside their ho...

    The Garden
  • 2025
    Sunspots

    Sunspots

    Sunspots

    02025HD

    In SUNSPOTS, several 16mm shots of the sun are layered and superimposed, paired with a soundscape consisting of volcanos, fire, plastic and the audibl...

    Sunspots
  • 2018
    The Iron Sisters

    The Iron Sisters

    The Iron Sisters

    02018HD

    Fey Iron, an amicable traveler, confronts her natural urges when she encounters a lone man in the desert. We follow Fey and her older sister Dylan thr...

    The Iron Sisters
  • 2018
    Sensory Warp

    Sensory Warp

    Sensory Warp

    02018HD

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

    Sensory Warp
  • 2016
    Sag Es Nicht

    Sag Es Nicht

    Sag Es Nicht

    02016HD

    The gaze in autocorrelation.

    Sag Es Nicht
  • 2025
    The Cry of the Banshee

    The Cry of the Banshee

    The Cry of the Banshee

    02025HD

    An experimental documentary on the Magdalene Laundry Institutions in Ireland, told through the myth of the banshee.

    The Cry of the Banshee
  • 1966
    Blackout

    Blackout

    Blackout

    01966HD

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

    Blackout
  • 2025
    Funeral Tape

    Funeral Tape

    Funeral Tape

    02025HD

    A man sifts through his dreams, dilemmas, memories, secrets and the poetics of love as he harbours his greatest desire, to simply die.

    Funeral Tape
  • 2014
    Rhus Typhina

    Rhus Typhina

    Rhus Typhina

    02014HD

    One of the series of labodoble experiments of the natural (organic) film developers. The structure of the film is based on the chemical formula of the...

    Rhus Typhina