Experimental

Experimental cinema or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms and alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working.

U.S. and foreign films

The English film title, original title, country of origin and production year are listed. Foreign-language films are subtitled in English.

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Tea for Three

Samuel Vines | United Kingdom, Switzerland | 2015 | 9 m The film Tea for Three is a playful look at power relations, the illusion of confidence and control and a look at the role of women in the past century. Its experimental, improvised and has strong emphasis on rhythm and physical movement. The film is set in… Read more »

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Jorge Romariz | Portugal | 2013 | 7 m A man and a cat live in a house. Through their objects, photographs and paintings the past lingers on and affections are conveyed.

Construction Assault

Laura Engelhardt | Germany | 2015 | 7 m ‘Construction assault’ is an essay documentary that examines the building and demolition cycles in Beijing’s periphery. It refers to the phenomena of ‘tuji jianfang’ (construction assault), a local building practice in which houses get built just to be demolished. The narrator travels with Beijing’s subway between the… Read more »

Having a Ball

Carl Knickerbocker | United States | 2015 | 4 m Man visits a psychiatrist.

Now Appearing in Bucharest

Robert Lawrence | United States | 2015 | 3 m 38 s English, French, Romanian with English Subtitles Bucharest may or may not be the Paris of the East, but it certainly is a daily dance between history and the present. In this short experimental film a montage of concert posters announcing upcoming performances dance their… Read more »

Dead Mall

Dustin Morrow | United States | 2016 | 5 m The mall featured in this film is, like many dying malls, a quiet symbol of America’s economic decline and erosion of consumer confidence. American shopping malls, once bright and shiny temples of commerce, have become in many cases like virtual ghost towns. Most malls were built in… Read more »

Shut Up I’m Counting!

Felix Salut | Germany, Netherlands | 2015 | 27 m Shut Up I’m Counting’ is a project between film and semiology. The movie is a parable of a complex and erratic world. Tara and Ohio are trapped in a reality packed with symbols, systems and fragments. They don‘t know how to escape from it. They are looking… Read more »

Romance in Factory

Yuchen Wang | China | 2016 | 30 m This is a cliche love story and a homage to Chinese first silent film<labourer’s love=””>by way of the destruction to tradition.A woman is so obsessed with a man that she interrupts the relations between him and the factory more than once,through which the woman and the man create a… Read more »

Fish

Valeria Buzdygar | Israel | 2016 | 15 m Personal experience translated to the metaphoric form about losing happiness and coming up to search for it again. The film is silent (only music) and experimental. Cast Valeria Buzdygar

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Alchemy

Brandon Polanco | United States | 2015 | 14 m Facebook An epic transformation manifests from a seemingly routine interview. As a failed every man begins to work through pages and pages of questions, time elongates. He finds himself tormented, isolated, battling the unknown, ultimately transcending into a heightened reality, discovering a new life between… Read more »