Your Independent Movie Guide
experimental
By David Finkelstein | September 2012
A series of continual aesthetic illuminations.
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...
"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...
