Movies: Experimental

  • 1975
    Atman

    Atman (1975)

    Atman

    6.61975HD

    ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions). Shooting frame-by-frame the filmmaker set up an increasingly rapid circular motion. ĀTMAN is an early Buddh...

    Atman
  • 2025
    Heartstorm

    Heartstorm (2025)

    Heartstorm

    02025HD

    A young woman goes on a cathartic journey through memory and imagination inspired by the performers at an open mic....

    Heartstorm
  • 2022
    The Grass Dwellers

    The Grass Dwellers (2022)

    The Grass Dwellers

    02022HD

    Juan Méndez Bernal leaves his house on the 9th of april of 1936 to fight in the imminent Spanish Civil War. 83 years later, his body is still one of the Grass Dwellers. The only thing that he leaves from those years on the front is a collection of 28...

    The Grass Dwellers
  • 1999
    Persian Series #1

    Persian Series #1 (1999)

    Persian Series #1

    5.21999HD

    This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed by darkness, then becomes lit lightning-like by sharp multiply-colored twigs-of shape, all resolving...

    Persian Series #1
  • 1965
    Black Is

    Black Is (1965)

    Black Is

    01965HD

    To the sound of a heartbeat and made entirely without the use of a camera, this film projects abstract forms and illuminations on a night-black background and suggests as Tambellini says, “seed black, seed black, sperm black, sperm black.”...

    Black Is
  • 2023
    Nostalgia for the Lake

    Nostalgia for the Lake (2023)

    Nostalgia for the Lake

    62023HD

    A vision from Limbo, where the canoeist of the eternal lake floats in his boat, between sleep and wakefulness. When he sleeps, he dreams of the everyday of a parallel time. when he wakes up, the same song haunts him again and again. his boat, “ara” (...

    Nostalgia for the Lake
  • 1966
    Readymade

    Readymade (1966)

    Readymade

    5.81966HD

    Color test strip from developing tank....

    Readymade
  • 2022
    A Heist Film

    A Heist Film (2022)

    A Heist Film

    102022HD

    In a local cafeteria, an unlikely trio of friends argue about how to rob the bank from across the street. It all changes when the waitress who serves them discovers their plans....

    A Heist Film
  • 1969
    From a distant time.

    From a distant time. (1969)

    From a distant time.

    01969HD

    In the summer of 1900, the first film camera was purchased by Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar for Iran, and immediately the first Iranian moving images were captured by this camera. These images, in an obsessive manner, have embodied the mesmerized gaze o...

    From a distant time.
  • 2024
    Winter Portrait

    Winter Portrait (2024)

    Winter Portrait

    02024HD

    A misty afternoon returns a Mapuche couple to their wedding video. In their civil ceremony, they are noted as one of only two couples married in the indigenous language of Mapudungun....

    Winter Portrait
  • 2018
    Acoustic Ocean

    Acoustic Ocean (2018)

    Acoustic Ocean

    02018HD

    Acoustic Ocean is an artistic exploration of the sonic ecology of marine life in the North Atlantic. Located on the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway, the video centers on the performance of a marine-biologist diver who is using a life-size model of...

    Acoustic Ocean
  • 1993
    Stellar

    Stellar (1993)

    Stellar

    6.31993HD

    This is a hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to achieve various effects of brief fades and fluidity-of-motion, and makes partial use of painted frames in repetition (for "close-up" of textures). The tone of the film is pri...

    Stellar
  • 2023
    Fugue State

    Fugue State (2023)

    Fugue State

    02023HD

    A young woman under the influence of narcotics finally realizes how she’s been spending her nights....

    Fugue State
  • 2025
    115

    115 (2025)

    115

    02025HD

    Emily enters a reverse time loop while creating incorrect fuel (element 115). JT, a boy she meets daily, helps her gather DNA, plants, and water. She creates a wormhole, but the fuel fails, causing a quantum collapse that reverses her through time....

    115
  • 2024
    The Tuba Thieves

    The Tuba Thieves (2024)

    The Tuba Thieves

    82024HD

    A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. The film un...

    The Tuba Thieves
  • 1963
    Flaming Creatures

    Flaming Creatures (1963)

    Flaming Creatures

    4.61963HD

    Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and partic...

    Flaming Creatures
  • 2023
    Maslenitsa

    Maslenitsa (2023)

    Maslenitsa

    02023HD

    Spoiled seven-year-old Vanka lives a carefree childhood. Going with his father to the Maslenitsa holiday, Vanka meets a runaway deserter in the forest, about whom he tells the adults. This act instantly deprives Vanka of his childhood, and the father...

    Maslenitsa
  • 2024
    Kino Kopf

    Kino Kopf (2024)

    Kino Kopf

    02024HD

    Born from steel and glass Kino Kopf is created by two inventors. They are assembled by their mother, a nurturing artist, and their Father a greedy entrepreneur. Kino Kopf is the first of its kind a sentient humanoid VHS camera. They are given a life ...

    Kino Kopf
  • 2019
    Orbit

    Orbit (2019)

    Orbit

    02019HD

    The sun’s energy circulates throughout the earth, feeding the cycle of life. Everything is connected in a natural loop, which repeats, like the circular discs of magical optical toys. This perfectly balanced rhythm is disrupted by human excess, throw...

    Orbit
  • 2016
    Monks

    Monks (2016)

    Monks

    02016HD

    A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum....

    Monks