Movies: Experimental

A film inspired by a visual representation of trauma and the journey towards healing. It delves into the symbolic language of the cosmos and the natural world to express the complex emotions associated with trauma....

The film stars two computers: Elliott 803 (in the Department of Nuclear Physics, the University of Helsinki) and IBM 1130 (in the computer centre at the University of Turku). At times, the coexistence of man and machine provokes suffocating frustrati...

In the Moroccan desert night dilutes forms and silence slides through sand. Dawn starts then to draw silhouettes of dunes while motionless figures punctuate landscape. From night´s abstraction, light returns its dimension to space and their volume to...

The film is an exploration of the queer body’s struggle to attain validation and evade exploitation. In a society where queer identities have always struggled to be recognized, our bodies have often been a medium of our expression and avenue for sati...

Three unlikely individuals attempt to escape the dark prison known as "The Void."...

After a long and cold night, Oog the caveman does a discovery that will change man’s history forever....

A dreamy, impressionistic 16mm film of light on water, comprised mostly of sepia tones....

A short trip to Cyprus to visit my Grandad, his house and the surrounding neighbourhood after 20 years....

A reclusive, neurotic young man is haunted by a mysterious figure that sends disks containing garbled footage of the young man's dreams. Student Short Film made for the London Film School....

A man attempts to operate a mysterious device, but with each attempt comes a new set of problems....

A satirical look at suburban life via the "family Christmas letter."...

A walk in the woods become a metaphoric journey in Chloé Leriche's short film. As a solitary figure moves through the forest, the texture of stone, the movement of water, all the infinite pageantry of the natural world is captured in its richness and...

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Set in Munich's petty-bourgeois Westend, film documents life at home with former Fassbinder actor, Warhol collaborator, and horror movie director Ulli Lommel. Rather than a straight documentary portrait of this bohemian household, the camera prefers ...

Experimental short movie mostly made of still photos. An old assassin lives on a yacht, in a port city. One day, the sister of a woman he killed appears....

Escombro is a collage and found footage film that brings together a series of natural disasters around the world over the last thirty years. The film features disasters caused by climate change and also the exploitation of the earth's natural resourc...

An orphaned raccoon happens to have a unique talent....

An abstract short film that sheds light on the bad habits of the society in which we evolve, but in a dark satiric & cynical way....

An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality. (NFB.ca)...

Threnody emphasises some of the madness and instability of a year filled with fires, infections and general disarray....