experimental

TV as a Fireplace (1968/69) Director: Jan Dibbets Duration: 23mins On the last eight evenings of 1969, WDR 3 television marked the close of transmission by broadcasting in colour the picture of a burning coal fire. There was no mention of the artist or the art character of the…

Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship (short, 1906) Original title: Le dirigeable fantastique Director: Georges Méliès An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight. #short #airship #classic #kinostr #shorts #kino #experimental #film #dirigeable #doot…

Thanatopsis (short, 1962) Director: Ed Emshwiller Duration: 5mins Introducing some innovative film techniques, Emshwiller won a Special Award at the Brussels Experimental Film Festival for this expression of internal anguish. He described the film as "The confrontation of a man and his torment. Juxtaposed against his external composure are

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (short, 1928) Directors: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich A wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number. #short

Free Fall (short, 1964) Director: Arthur Lipsett Duration: 10mins 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) #short…

Engram (short, 1987) Director: Toshio Matsumoto Duration: 12mins Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos movies inside of movies photos inside of movies movies inside of photos and (even) a film director inside a TV set. Composer: Takashi…

Sisters with Transistors (2020) Director: Lisa Rovner Follows the story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. #documentary #music #experimental #kinostr #kino #fullmovies #art #radio #documentaries…

The Cube (1969) Director: Jim Henson The Cube was an avant-garde drama written for television by Jerry Juhl and Jim Henson (and produced and directed by Henson). The hour-long piece takes place within a single set: a white, cubed space composed of rectangular panels, in which the nameless…

Meditation on Violence (1948) (Documentary/Short ‧ 12mins) Director: Maya Deren Meditation on Violence is a 1948 American experimental short film directed by Maya Deren. Shot in 16 mm, It explores in playing out the movements and performance of the Wu-tang ritual. It also obscures the distinction between violence and…

Julien Donkey Boy (1999) Director: Harmony Korine Julien Donkey-Boy is a 1999 American experimental drama film written and directed by Harmony Korine. The story concentrates on Julien, a man with schizophrenia, played by Scottish actor Ewen Bremner, and his dysfunctional family. The film also stars Chloë Sevigny as Julien&

Grim (1985) (Short, 8mins) Takashi Ito A sensuous ghost haunts a flat in this unusual ode to plain, generic areas. "Film is capable of presenting unrealistic world as a vivid reality and creating a strange space peculiar to the media. My major intention is to change the ordinary every