Experimental Movies

Short experimental computer animation by Jules Engel

A collection of memories from a tumultuous time at University.

Hebe, in her journey from childhood to adulthood, finds herself compelled to explore the boundaries of the real and the illusory through her...

The inner mind of Aaliyah Petra, a young black dancer fighting to withstand the immense pressure of being her family and community's...

16mm color work by Stan Vanderbeek that takes his work away from the cutups and the commentary and lands him in the psychedelic and abstract....

Two characters on a Noh stage dramatize the rite of love and death of Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko.

Landscapes are permeable, impermanent. They are hallucinations of literature, manifestations of human manipulation. Like the pixel, they are...

A personal experimental exploration of the book of Psalms in the Holy Bible

A dance film that explores new dimensions in color and space. The film develops like a fugue, with dancers (and giant undulating circle) moving...

During a fall, a consciousness divides and flows through itself, falling and crashing against the ground. From the rain and the wet soil, something...

An impressionistic emotional struggle between a girl with a prefabricated heart and a mysterious puppet-master. Inspired by the chapter "The Girl...

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the...

A woman goes to a cold and inhospitable abandoned cove to try to summon the spirit of her only son, who passed away during the war.

The emotional decline of a person after being the host of an energetic parasite.

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

An omnibus film based on Kim Oki's album Hip Hop Retreat. Twenty characters share the same table at different times, in different emotional states,...

Lake gazes down at a still body of water from a birds-eye view, while a group of artists peacefully float in and out of the frame or work to stay at...

Short aired during the Pippo Chennedy Show

A young woman is fed up with the usual consumer's television and begins to make her own television, or more correctly, closevision. She is now a...

"I throw water in space with a bucket. A video camera pictures this. Another camera pictures this event from the TV screen. 3 modalities of reality:...