Experimental Movies

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...

An abstract animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the iotaCenter, in 2007.

We were slightly feverish when we started working with a particular color process. At the development, we had obtained wonderful tones of blue and yel...

"The film's title takes into account meanings and implication of the word 'chamber', as well as of the heart, intimate music, darkness, room, camera,...

Séance provides one of the first cinematic examples of a flicker effect.

"#5 from a series of 7... A dance leading to a dance. Super 8, silent, non-narritive."

In Silver, Murata subjects a snippet of footage from a vintage horror movie (Mario Bava's 1960 film 'Mask of Satan', featuring Barbara Steele) — to hi...

"This is the second film of the Anomalies Cycle. It is a hand Painted and manipulated film. I also used the technique of bleaching and batiking of the...

Walter Ungerer's A Warm Day Comes After A Cold Winter is among a series of experimental films the filmmaker created in the 90s that utilize computer a...

A dance by bodies of shifting colors.

A slow-motion dive at 3,000 frames per second.

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

This symbolic journey evokes the personal creative wandering of the Vasulkas. The landscape, shot from a car window while driving in the Santa Fe area...

"I came across an old industrial film by Siemens on computer and their language. To better appreciate the film I first of all cut off the sound, I the...

Abstract film set to electronic music.

A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made con...