Your Independent Movie Guide
experimental
By David Finkelstein | November 2011
Riding a bike becomes a metaphor for navigating through danger…
"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...
"The Indeserian Tablets" is a complex, mesmerizing and beautiful short by Peter Rose. It begins with a quote from a poem which laments a vanished culture:...
"Black Stains" is a powerful experimental essay film by Sharon Horodi and Cheb M. Kammerer, which explores the issues of the commodification of art in...
"Partial Fraction," an absorbing documentary by Cheb Kammerer and Sharon Horodi, is a portrait of the Shapira neighborhood in Tel Aviv, where the...
"The Divided Utopia of Neve Shaanan" is a fascinating essay film by Sharon Horodi and Cheb Kammerer about the New Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv, a...
In "Videomappings: Aida, Palestine," German born artist Till Roeskens has created a fascinating document: part community art project, part documentary....
"The Floor of the World" is one of filmmaker Janie Geiser's mesmerizing and enchanting film collages. Her style is a kind of low tech cinematic puppetry,...