Experimental Movies

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to...

Experiments based on a woman dissociated from reality.

Alma is at home, on the line with her girlfriend, when suddenly the light bulb in the hallway burns out, forcing her to face a certain dark corridor...

An experimental short in which a couple engaged in lovemaking is superimposed over ocean and beach scenes.

Originally commissioned by an Austrian couple in 1961 to photograph a travel diary documenting their wild game hunt, Kubelka shot three hours of film...

As a woman attempts to outrun her intrusive thoughts, her evening begins to unravel alongside her mind.

No End was inspired by a poem I wrote over the course of six months. During this process, abstract images surfaced, subsided, and settled: eventually...

Body Collage is a visceral "movement-event" from 1967, in which Schneemann paints her body with wallpaper paste and molasses, and then runs, leaps,...

This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited...

machina is not a technology movie. It is about the breakdown of a faith and power structure we are already living in.

Ariadne, a theatre actress, is seemingly trapped inside a room. Once she lets go, the room starts shifting.

A dying mind starts dreaming for the last time before their death. As the dream continues and the mind simultaneously decays, the dream starts to...

A modern and gloomy city of skyscrapers works to the rhythm of two pistons. Anonymous stenographers work in the dark offices, butchers deliver fresh...

A personal reflection on hands, the word "tear," and caring for oneself that experiments with sound, silence, and definitions.

Described as an experimental film about a prostitute wrestler.

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent...

A mysterious detective appears in a desolate and dark place, with no memory of how he got there or who he is. With a cigarette in hand, he begins to...

In the Moroccan desert night dilutes forms and silence slides through sand. Dawn starts then to draw silhouettes of dunes while motionless figures...

Victor Neff moves into a new apartment and discovers a strange machine in the basement. Made of scrap metal, wires, and old television sets, it...