Movies: Experimental

A man unravels the consequences of reaching the unreachable horizon, starting from the abyss....

Darkness and light, as seen by VIFF’s favourite Buddhist erotist. Part of the TOKYO LOOP animation anthology produced by ImageForum Japan....

In Studies cycle, abstract studies are assembled, which document the Vasulka's early work with electronic material. The visual aspect of Tissues is the work of Steina, whereas Woody engineered the sound....

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A series of lights flashed on screen in the form of 36 pictures and 3 videos, all contributing to a pattern....

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures....

Spoiled seven-year-old Vanka lives a carefree childhood. Going with his father to the Maslenitsa holiday, Vanka meets a runaway deserter in the forest, about whom he tells the adults. This act instantly deprives Vanka of his childhood, and the father...

Filming reworked electronically to make a dream story more real. You just have to let yourself be submerged by the waters of the Arno....

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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 music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstra...

Experimental short-film made by brazilian students about the trópicalia and cinema novo movement. The narrative revolves around the song Géleia Geral from the album Tropicália ou Panis Et Circensis and also around the political, artistical and social...

A person receives old entries from their diary, unsure of who is sending them. They eventually arrive at a moment of transcendence....

Mayrah is a film made from a time last summer while in Sidney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Australia was such an intense flurry of impressions, movements and environments, that the film took the form of a stone skipping across moments of this time: a ser...

A video sketch at Hayama's bed, situated in Bangkok....

Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject....

Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity...

Shambhavi Kaul sets up dialectical dread in Death Valley in a series of uncanny shots of geological formations, eroded mountains, dunes and dried lava contrasted against images of shimmering night skies....

In "Eclipse" enigmatic images trail the path of a poem, exploring one aspect of grief when a life is eclipsed. The often-controversial subject of a woman's right to choose is depicted from a perspective that is pointedly more personal than political....

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