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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Impersonator

    Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson | 19 mins | 2021
    A Hollywood Boulevard character impersonator struggles to earn a living from photographs with tourists in its unrecognizable costume, and then returns to its LA River encampment to find the police confiscating tents. Without a sense of place or pu...

  • In the Air Tonight

    Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson | 11 mins | 2020
    An atmospheric standout of the Sundance and the New York Film Festival shorts programs, Andrew Norman Wilson’s "In the Air Tonight" unfurls a ghost story beneath the night skies of Michael Mann’s Los Angeles. The film recounts the apocryphal tale ...

  • Ode to Seekers 2012

    Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson | 8 mins | 2016
    Ode to Seekers 2012 was initially conceived at Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, New York, which contains the abandoned children’s ward that is navigated through from a mosquito’s point of view. The similarities between human behavior and ...

  • 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.

  • Workers Leaving the Googleplex

    Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson | 11 mins | 2012
    "Workers Leaving the Googleplex" investigates a top secret, marginalized class of workers at Google's international corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley. The video documents the yellow badge-wearing ScanOps Google Books workers, while simultan...