Experimental

Experimental

A selection of films that push the limits of the moving image.

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  • Beast

    Directed by Benjamin Nicolas | 11 mins | 2021
    While the opening of this Expressionistic short film—depicting a perfunctory exchange between a rideshare driver and his passenger about Christmas shopping—gives little indication as to the direction it’s headed in, then the ominous title is rather mo...

  • Blonde Cobra

    Leaving March 1

    Directed by Ken Jacobs | 34 mins | 1963
    In Blonde Cobra, dubbed “the masterpiece of Baudelairean cinema” by Jonas Mekas, Jacobs turns his camera on fellow underground icon Jack Smith. Screening as part of a selection of five experimental shorts from the Brooklyn-born Jacobs, one ...

  • Goodbye to Language

    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard | 70 mins | 2014
    An innovator to the end, Godard’s penultimate feature finds him experimenting with the possibilities of digital 3D, using the technology to plot the disintegration of both a couple’s relationship and the images of the relationship. A film of unpreceden...

  • Little Stabs at Happiness

    Leaving March 1

    Directed by Ken Jacobs | 15 m ins | 1963
    A collection of smaller silent segments made between 1956 and ’63. Screening as part of a selection of five experimental shorts from the Brooklyn-born Jacobs, one of the most wildly creative and influential film artists and teachers in the...

  • Orchard Street

    Leaving March 1

    Directed by Ken Jacobs | 27 mins | 1955
    Ken Jacobs documents the tradition of eager haggling and bargain hunting that once took place on the Lower East Side commercial thoroughfare of the title. Screening as part of a selection of five experimental shorts from the Brooklyn-born J...

  • Pre Evolution Soccer's One-Minute Dance After a Golden Goal in the Master League

    Directed by Miguel Gomes | 1 min | 2004
    “Cinema is a game,” Gomes has said—a statement especially true of this briefest of shorts, a machinima that delights in the glitchy rhythms of the celebratory motions made by players in the Playstation game Pro Evolution Soccer.

  • The Falls

    Leaving March 1

    Directed by Peter Greenaway | 239 mins | 1980
    Greenaway’s first feature, an epic mock documentary in 92 parts that catalogs the aftermath of a mysterious “Violent Unknown Event” that has killed many people, and left survivors suffering from symptoms including strange dreams and m...

  • The Whirled

    Leaving March 1

    Directed by Ken Jacobs | 19 mins | 2007
    A collection of smaller silent segments by Brooklyn-born experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs, made between 1956 and ’63. Screening as part of a selection of five experimental shorts from the Brooklyn-born Jacobs, one of the most wildly creati...

  • The Wolf House

    Directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña | 73 mins | 2018
    One of the most stunning animated debuts of the past decade, this cracked fairy tale follows a young woman fleeing a cult and settling into a transmogrifying house inhabited by two pigs. Shot frame by frame and melding painted animati...

  • Valentine's Day Girl

    Directed by Ryan Trecartin | 7 mins | 2001
    A Valentine’s Day-obsessed girl is gagged, bound, and subjected to a crazed, tinsel-strewn celebration of Christmas—a rival holiday!—in this gleefully frenetic early short from visionary video artist Trecartin, which stars his long-time collaborator Lizz...

  • Window

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    Directed by Ken Jacobs | 12 mins | 1964
    Jacobs, always interested in experiments in perception, uses his camera to contemplate the frame of a window and the exterior beyond, as he does conducting a scintillating experiment involving lenses and screens. Screening as part of a sele...

  • Fraud

    Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp | 55 mins | 2016
    A family's home movies document a desperate crime spree and a bid to outrun the consequences…Or do they? In this meta-fiction thriller, an average family’s youtube videos have been edited to resemble something quite different. An extraordinary feat...