Experimental Movies

Two time-lapse sequences of boats in an estuary, the tide rising and falling.

E3 (∞, E = eternity, 3 = 3 month) is the first work trying to capture my drawing and painting style into a moving picture. It captures the beginning,...

A film by Paul Clipson.

The light and water of wintertime, viewed at 35,000 feet, over the U.S., somewhere between the East and West coasts.

Christopher Becks’s Pan of the Landscape uses gorgeous Brakhage-like painting on film to un-Brakhage-like ends: spectacular skies combine with the slo...

"Leiberg embarks on a search for the interaction between painting and improvised music, tinkering with sound collages sets language and sounds against...

From LUX: "Welsby adopts a system of camera movements to chart the movement of tides, waves and sky".

"Light animation and original poetry in this initiatic journey by Dennis Pies, who is now known as Sky-David." - Daily Psychedelic. Preserved by the...

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement] returns to...

One of several experimental films shot in the late '60s and early '70s by the recently deceased computer music pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi, Florence is a...

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker prog...

An abstract animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the iotaCenter, in 2007.

We were slightly feverish when we started working with a particular color process. At the development, we had obtained wonderful tones of blue and yel...

"The film's title takes into account meanings and implication of the word 'chamber', as well as of the heart, intimate music, darkness, room, camera,...

Séance provides one of the first cinematic examples of a flicker effect.

"#5 from a series of 7... A dance leading to a dance. Super 8, silent, non-narritive."

In Silver, Murata subjects a snippet of footage from a vintage horror movie (Mario Bava's 1960 film 'Mask of Satan', featuring Barbara Steele) — to hi...

"This is the second film of the Anomalies Cycle. It is a hand Painted and manipulated film. I also used the technique of bleaching and batiking of the...