Experimental Cinema Movies

In the wee hours of winter a night train travels through a sleepless city. This is a panorama of a Buddhist monk’s journey through Tokyo at...

Yoko Ono plays with our sense of anticipation by constructing a metaphor for the liberation of the female body and self.

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers...

A sensual hommage to Germany's most productive queer filmmaker, Rosa von Praunheim.

Six women in Paris traverse the anxiety of the city after dark. A filmmaker struggles to understand the film she is making. A Black single mother...

A video to accompany 19 minutes of music from John and Yoko's Two Virgins album. We see Lennon's and Ono's faces superimposed upon each other's, then...

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone...

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest...

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on...

Michaela tries her best to be a good person.

American cartoons are the starting point for Martin Arnold's new work. Sequences of short films form the basis of a process of fragmentation,...

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community...

A beautiful memory is erased by the gushing water; place and people long gone, swept up by the tide.

Jo is wild, melancholic, only 15 and today she misses the school bus, once again. Her mother insists she doesn’t have a car, even though...

Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get...

This short follows Lennon and Ono as they take a hot-air balloon ride over snow-covered countryside.

Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and...

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

American cartoons are the starting point for Martin Arnold's new work. Sequences of short films form the basis of a process of fragmentation,...