EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS
A collection of the best experimental short films from around the world today.
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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/arecaroeDirected by Areca Roe
Cast: Majentah Aquarious, Cassie Mari
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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
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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
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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...
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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/RebelPicturesSinger & 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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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/1617210611832188Writer/Director...
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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...
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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
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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/keithsargent3X3X3Director Biography - Keith Sargent
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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...
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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: ...