Your Independent Movie Guide
experimental
By David Finkelstein | September 2012
Dares us to feel at home in the exhilaration of this shifting universe…
"Varifold" is a mesmerizing, mind-altering video short by artist Van McElwee. The imagery seems to be created from many, many layers of stills and moving...
Like many films labeled "experimental," Lori Felker's short "The Mirrored Curtain" uses abstract and metaphorical images to explore a concept, in this...
White carpeting covers a small entryway in front of a door. Within this bare, ordinary space, filmmaker Ed Rankus makes an extraordinary set of formal...
In 2001, filmmaker Helen Hill found a collection of extraordinary handmade dresses in the garbage on a street in New Orleans. Hill dug around for more...
The footage in "Number One," a ten minute abstract video by Leighton Pierce, is of elemental forces: tumbling stones, water, fire, nude bodies in motion....
In "Stochastics," a new 6 minute short, French artist David Kidman takes a simple idea and expands it with fascinating results. The film is made of many...
"I My Bike" is a short, poetic film by Ken Paul Rosenthal, in which riding a bike becomes a metaphor for navigating through danger, and negotiating a...
"Poolside Manners" is a curious and engaging short by Ed Rankus, which features Kirstin Elliott in a series of movement studies with props. The short...
"Twist of Fate," a nine minute animated film by Karen Aqua, uses largely abstract means to explore the fears associated with life-threatening illness....
"Drexciya," loosely inspired by the Detroit band of the same name, is a strange, powerful, and elegiac short by American-born, Ghanaian filmmaker Akosua...