Experimental Movies

“[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...

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...

Walter Ungerer's A Warm Day Comes After A Cold Winter is among a series of experimental films the filmmaker created in the 90s that utilize computer a...

A dance by bodies of shifting colors.

A slow-motion dive at 3,000 frames per second.

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

This symbolic journey evokes the personal creative wandering of the Vasulkas. The landscape, shot from a car window while driving in the Santa Fe area...

"I came across an old industrial film by Siemens on computer and their language. To better appreciate the film I first of all cut off the sound, I the...

Abstract film set to electronic music.

A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made con...

An essay in colour harmonics and visual overtones. Conceived and produced as part of the Images Film Festival's Minute Movies.

A sci-fi/occult/psychedelic performance film set to an original soundtrack by Rhys Chatham. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A synthesized video environment.

A man is trapped in a flat and tries to get out.