EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS

EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS

A collection of the best experimental short films from around the world today.

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EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS
  • ARM IN A SLING by Extraterrestrials, Music Video, 4min.,

    Music Video for the song "Arm in a Sling" by Extraterrestrials, featuring rollerskaters Majentah Aquarious & Cassie Mari

    https://extraterrestrials.bandcamp.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/arecaroe

    Directed by Areca Roe

    Cast: Majentah Aquarious, Cassie Mari

  • TUMULT short film, 9min., USA, Dance

    In a school auditorium, two groups of students move, meet, and part: innocence and experience on seemingly parallel paths.

    http://martarenzi.blogspot.com/

    Directed by Marta Renzi

    Cinematographer: Jennifer Keller

    Key Cast: Rhode Island College Dance Company

  • UNBROKEN short film, 2min., USA, Experimental/Music

    "Unbroken" is a poem written by Jean-Sebastien Surena and excerpted from his book, "Quarantined Thoughts." The visual takes us through a sunny day in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY. People just living their lives. Try as you might, the white man cannot break us.

    Directed by Suswana Chowdhury

    ...

  • WAKE short film, 6min., USA, Dance

    “Wake” is a dance film that serves as both a mourning and a celebration created by Rethink Dance & Chamber 6 Media. This artistic story-telling dance film was designed with a purpose to educate and bring awareness to underlying issues that have become normal in our society. The project captures a...

  • LOVE IS WILD, 2min., Music Video, USA

    A music video for singer/songwriter, Jen Sygit, by award-winning writer/actor/director Michael McCallum about the different faces of love.

    http://rebelpictures.net/
    https://www.facebook.com/rebelpictures
    https://twitter.com/RebelPictures

    Singer & Lead Cast: Jen Sygit

    Director Statement
    I've ha...

  • HOPE short film, 4min., Iceland, Horror/Experimental

    The apocalypse is coming. A lonely and bitter nun seeks for help to let go of her past and finally be free. The lights go out. The lights are turned on. And suddenly there is a change.

    Writer/Director: Knútur Haukstein Ólafsson

    Cinematography: Eva Rut Hjaltadóttir

  • A FOREST short film, 11min., Argentina, Experimental/Drama

    The past and the present are intertwined in an old abandoned house in the middle of a forest. Into the trees, Martin walks. A tragedy. Into the trees, into the trees. Based on the song "A Forest" by The Cure.

    Directed by Adriano Curci

    Produced by Christian Sotelo

    Director Biography - Adriano C...

  • OPEN THE WINDOW short film, 3min., Italy, Music

    The room of a hospital, two women waiting. The invitation to the soul to let go, the invitation to react for who remains.

    A woman on a hospital bed, at the end of her life, is struggling to survive.
    Another woman is waiting during those final moments.
    In what is the close separation between the ...

  • DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN short film, 4min., UK, Experimental/Music

    A young girl girl searches for a safe haven in an urban landscape and finds solace in her own creative expression.

    Michelle Bailey's follow up to her award winning debut film 'Dad' is a personal and poignant depiction of the effects of domestic abuse on a young girls mental health. In her own wo...

  • THE LEAVING ROOM short film, 14min., China, Dance

    While sitting comfortably in her living room, feet propped up on the coffee table, Star receives quite the shock. What ensues is a journey inward, accompanied by the faces and facets of her ego. This story is stylistically kitsch and told through dance for camera in five acts.

    http://alyrose.org...

  • MOVING PORTRAITS short film, 3min., Experimental/Dance

    Moving Portraits is a short dance film by the two dancers Himerria Wortham and Raquel Cabrera. Born out of a yearning for elevated images of women of color, Wortham and Cabrera borrowed from their respective Algerian and Mexican cultures to create this contemporary series of moving dance portrait...

  • PLASTICPOEMS short film, 2min., Canada, Animation/Experimental

    Two concrete poems come to life via animated text and sound in this short unnarrated video based on Fiona Tinwei Lam's visual poems about marine plastic pollution.

    http://www.fionalam.net/

    Directed by Fiona Tinwei Lam

    Animation: Nhat Truong

    Sound Design: Tinjun Niu

    Director Statement
    Each po...

  • POSITIVE short film, 2min., France, Experimental

    POSITIVE is a film and photo series starring three people with special skin conditions. Putting a spotlight on albinism and vitiligo through negative editing , the project aims to raise awareness of these skin conditions and the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination those with albinis...

  • MOMENTS IN PARADISE short film, 1min., Switzerland, Animation

    Plants are growing in paradise; one of them nicer, more beautiful and taller than all the other and provoke a disciplinary action. Against all odds has consequences even in paradise.

    Directed by bellopropello

  • THE DRY SALVAGES short film, 5min., Dance/Experimental

    An experimental dance film that blurs the grace of reality and explores the sense of connection and disconnection.

    Directed by Agnes Maska

    Cast: Madeleine Lee, Chase Yi, Daniel Dasent, Mark Chinnery

    https://youtu.be/kFcqXP5nQcs

  • VAINSANITY, 7min., USA, Drama/Experimental/Action

    A man attempts to get the best out of himself for himself.

    Writer/Director: Pierre Schlumberger

    Produced by Danielle Afori

    Cast: Josh Hardwick

    Cinematographer: Christopher Pilarski

  • HALLOWSTIDE short film, 4min., USA, Animation/Experimental

    Dreamy, haunting forms transform, then ascend into a new spiritual world.

    Writer/Director: Steve Socki

    Music/Sound: Gary Chang

    Director Statement
    Steve Socki Aritst’s Statement Oct 2017

    "Hallowstide" is a non-narrative animated film; it is intended to be viewed as a visual poem. I was inspire...

  • MEASURE, 2min., UK, Horror/Experimental

    A woman contemplates how to end her relationship with her wayward partner.

    Director Statement
    I am interested in exploring the boundaries of fantastic genre and experimental film, both in form and content.

    Writer/Director: Shelagh Rowan-Legg

    Cast: Victor Correia, Shelagh Rowan-Legg

    Cinematogr...

  • NO WOMAN, 3min., Afghanistan, Experimental

    There is a world beyond our world, when it comes to a decision, there is always a big NO to WOMEN. in this case majority suffers from it but only few women take the risk and fights for it

    http://nowomanfilm.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/pages/No-Woman-Short-Film/1617210611832188

    Writer/Director...

  • MITTA HAS BEEN MASKING short film, 3min., USA, Experimental

    A fugue on the interior elements of the personae ... psychological masking ... sense of self, dissociation and self-misrepresentation. An experiment in processing identity, autism diagnosis and psychosis, through film.

    https://www.darbybailey.com/news/mitta-has-been-masking-new-short-film

    Direc...

  • FELIX HAS A DREAM short film, 4min., USA, Comedy/Experimental/Sci-Fi

    As a meteor hurls towards Earth, Felix tries to party and reconnect with old friends.

    Writer/Director: Robert Campbell Sturdevant

    Cast: Max Brown

    Producer: Erin Croom

  • ALWAYS THE SUN short film, 9min., UK, Experimental / Black & White

    A short film based on a poem: always the sun by Keith Sargent. Wilderness, illness and the great British cretinocracy.

    Key Cast: Lindsay Seers

    http://www.3x3x3.tv/
    https://www.instagram.com/keithsargent3X3X3

    Director Biography - Keith Sargent
    90138894a9 headshot
    Keith Sargent lives and works o...

  • LIGHT YEARS short film, 5min., Experimental/Crime

    Since the beginning of modern cinema, viewers and critics alike have been transfixed by light contrasted with darkness. This interplay of light and dark was typical of film noir, a metaphor of good and evil in plots that featured crime, detectives, and mystery. We celebrate this genre through a s...

  • PORTRAITS OF INCANTAION, 7min., Experimental/Black & White

    a film by Taso Papadakis and Robyn Nisbet

    performed, choreographed and co-produced by Robyn Nisbet

    photographed directed, edited and co-produced by

    Taso Papadakis, https://www.tasophoto.com

    original musical score by Emile de Leon / Temple Sounds, https://www.templesounds.net

    About the work: ...