Experimental Movies

  • 2001
    Silver Play

    Silver Play

    Silver Play

    02001HD

    "It's all coming out of Mexico. Surreal gets so real. And invader from England, France or Spain found the taste of cactus cocktail. That makes this mo...

    Silver Play
  • 1960
    Disintegration Line #1

    Disintegration Line #1

    Disintegration Line #1

    01960HD

    A direct animation film featuring black and white full frame motion as opalescent as the dancing night sky. The abstract animation field textures subt...

    Disintegration Line #1
  • 1981
    On Your Own

    On Your Own

    On Your Own

    01981HD

    Into my hands fell a 20-minute exhortation to find the right job after high school. Struck by its fierce redundancy, I undertook a distillation, editi...

    On Your Own
  • 1974
    Life in the Atom

    Life in the Atom

    Life in the Atom

    01974HD

    Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a m...

    Life in the Atom
  • 1974
    Sausage City

    Sausage City

    Sausage City

    01974HD

    Sausage City illustrates Beckett's additive cycle process. Constantly evolving rectangular shapes provide a foundation for an environment inhabited by...

    Sausage City
  • 1953
    Eneri

    Eneri

    Eneri

    01953HD

    Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation i...

    Eneri
  • 1972
    Running Film

    Running Film

    Running Film

    01972HD

    A London park and artist Chris Welsby runs repeatedly into frame and off into the distance; his actions contrast with the more leisurely activities of...

    Running Film
  • 1979
    Bermuda Triangle

    Bermuda Triangle

    Bermuda Triangle

    01979HD

    The box from the film strip becomes an arbitrary plot of action relating to the mysterious phenomena taking place in the Bermuda Triangle. Experimenta...

    Bermuda Triangle
  • 1989
    Three Paces

    Three Paces

    Three Paces

    01989HD

    An urban fairy tale in which three characters negotiate a space where myth and reality constantly collide. Syed uses the character of The Lady of Shal...

    Three Paces
  • 1987
    Unfolding

    Unfolding

    Unfolding

    01987HD

    Unfolding depicts the gendered space of the launderette as both a site of oppression and possible resistance. “I was interested in making a film about...

    Unfolding
  • 1973
    Winter and Summer

    Winter and Summer

    Winter and Summer

    01973HD

    Two time-lapse sequences of boats in an estuary, the tide rising and falling.

    Winter and Summer
  • 1987
    Zeichenfilm II - Fragmente Fragile

    Zeichenfilm II - Fragmente Fragile

    Zeichenfilm II - Fragmente Fragile

    01987HD

    Zeichenfilm II - Fragmente Fragile
  • 2002
    E3

    E3

    E3

    02002HD

    E3 (∞, E = eternity, 3 = 3 month) is the first work trying to capture my drawing and painting style into a moving picture. It captures the beginning,...

    E3
  • 1969
    Yours

    Yours

    Yours

    01969HD

    Yours
  • 2006
    Watercolor Night Montage No. 7

    Watercolor Night Montage No. 7

    Watercolor Night Montage No. 7

    02006HD

    A film by Paul Clipson.

    Watercolor Night Montage No. 7
  • 2006
    Over Water

    Over Water

    Over Water

    02006HD

    The light and water of wintertime, viewed at 35,000 feet, over the U.S., somewhere between the East and West coasts.

    Over Water
  • 2005
    Pan of the Landscape

    Pan of the Landscape

    Pan of the Landscape

    02005HD

    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...

    Pan of the Landscape
  • 1983
    action situation

    action situation

    action situation

    01983HD

    "Leiberg embarks on a search for the interaction between painting and improvised music, tinkering with sound collages sets language and sounds against...

    action situation
  • 1973
    Fforest Bay II

    Fforest Bay II

    Fforest Bay II

    01973HD

    From LUX: "Welsby adopts a system of camera movements to chart the movement of tides, waves and sky".

    Fforest Bay II
  • 1984
    Ace of Light

    Ace of Light

    Ace of Light

    21984HD

    "Light animation and original poetry in this initiatic journey by Dennis Pies, who is now known as Sky-David." - Daily Psychedelic. Preserved by the...

    Ace of Light