Experimental Movies

A dream lament for a drowned world. Filmed in London, Zurich, San Francisco, Berkeley and Napa. Music by Grouper.

“I've never seen light that looks or feels so dark; forward moving possibility united with so much cosmic terror.”—Marilyn Brakhage

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he mixed...

An interconnected look at tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, as seen through labor practices that link an endangered salamander, ma...

Banished from Lesotho, the titular character Molelekoa flees from the police. During the chase other characters discuss the complexities of life in Le...

Date palms imported and cultivated decades ago flourish in the Coachella Valley in Southern California. A cacophony of voices from across generations...

Doors in our life. Each has a melody, like a music box. They have stories, like a book. They will be opened one by one.

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...

A tutorial about guided meditation. Throughout the project, the spectator is invited to follow a series of steps that, if done well, will take them to...

L'amour (love). La mort (death). Two French words that could confuse a foreigner, but never a native. Messenger V writes for a company that sends out...

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

An experimental lo-fi love story told through still photographs, an unseen character longingly admires a young woman from afar.

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...

Repetition, delay, suppression, intertwined images. Through the child, father, and mother; the way memories are recalled, the camera's manipulative re...

An introverted girl struggles to form connections through a strange social media site.

Tirsa, Elián, Teo, and Avril are imprisoned in a boarded-up house. In just a few minutes, their sentences will finally end. However, a call reminds th...

3-D is a hand-painted experimental short film by Riley Hogan. Acrylic paint, ink and scratching were used to animate on clear Super 8mm film leader.

A short artist film that explores femininity and sexuality. SHE journeys through her life and mind in order to be reborn, and reclaim all that men hav...