EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS

EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS

A collection of the best experimental short films from around the world today.

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EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS
  • MISS TAKEN, 8min., USA, Experimental/LGBTQ+

    Trapped in a questionable medical facility, a trans woman undergoes attempted forced conversion therapy. This is her fight to maintain her true identity, fighting against being mistaken for someone she's not.

    Directed by Nathan Thompson

    Written by Chilli Kellaway

    Cast: Lola Battle, Mckenna Bir...

  • AN ORDINARY EXPERIENCE, 52min., France, Experimental/Documentary

    52' documentary film
    original music : Pierre Yves LENIK
    A film by Hervé MARCOTTE
    In July 2022, I brought together two sixteen-year-olds, Jeanne and Romain, in a house by the sea.
    They didn't know each other yet.
    I was determined to take them seriously,
    and make them live
    with all their uncertaint...

  • LULLABY OF UKRAINE, 3min., Ukraine, Documentary/Music/Experimental

    Dedicated to the Children of Ukraine, victims of the brutal Russian invasion… Let everyone ask themselves and the leaders of their countries: what else has to happen, what arguments are needed that Ukraine is finally given the necessary military aid for Victory?

    Director Biography - Alexander Sp...

  • NIGHT OF SIX CENTURES, 7min., Israel, Experimental/Music

    The time machine has been created. It is used to rescue innocent people. The first is a girl sentenced to stake by inquisition.

    Directed by Alina Lebedeva

    Produced and Starring: Freddy Romm

  • THE MORGUE, 1min., Iran, Horror/Experimental

    A zombie girl comes out of the morgue and is horrified by the image of the movie The Ring on the TV. (Real voices of ghosts are used in this movie)

    Directed by Majid Farzolahi

    https://www.instagram.com/majidfarzolahi

  • THE WICKLOW'S WITCHES, 45min., Italy, Experimental/Fantasy

    The story talks about the bond between two women from different background and generation: an old witch and a little girl.

    Submerged in a beautiful Irish landscape, the story is colored with magic potions, formulas, orations and picturesque scenario.

    The story of the two protagonists, will tran...

  • POST (COVID-19) ERA, 2min., USA, Fashion Film

    This fashion film is the collaboration with jewelry designer Hankunyu Wei, which expresses the jewelry artist Hankunyu Wei’s thoughts and reflections on the aftershocks to human society after the end of COVID-19.As the COVID-19 inevitably hits the workings of the world, each and every one of our ...

  • ABSTRACT SKIES, 4min., Canada, Documentary/Experimental

    A short film that reimagines the skies as a gallery of abstract forms, captured in motion through time-lapse.

    http://www.projectaroid.com/

    Director Biography - Roger Gallant
    Roger Gallant is a filmmaker, animator, and composer from western Newfoundland, Canada. His work reflects a somber and tr...

  • HELADO, 2min., UK, Experimental/Black & White

    HELADO is a short-film which reflects on how the choices we may or may not make are directly related to how truthful we are to ourselves. It does this through a clown exploration which alludes to our inner most honest feelings and emotions in contrast to our adult overthinking mind.

    https://www....

  • Variations in Light and Shadows, 4min., Documentary/Environmental

    A non-narrative time-lapse exploration of light and shadows over the landscape of Bay St. George, NL, Canada.

    http://www.projectaroid.com/

    https://www.instagram.com/projectaroid/

    Director Biography - Roger Gallant
    Roger Gallant is a filmmaker, animator, and composer from western Newfoundland, ...

  • THE SILENT SYNTHETIC SYMPHONY: A Human-AI Collaboration, Greece, Experimental

    In a silent environment, artificial intelligence meets the boundless human mind and together they unite their powers to create a music and dance piece of scientific fantasy. The lyrics, composed by a robotic mind simulating the writing style of the great author William Shakespeare, draw upon a po...

  • COLD ISLE, 5min., Ireland, Documentary/Environmental/Experimental

    A seagull living in a harbour village starts to evaluate its existence and flies to a remote island for answers.

    Directed by Josh Wagner

  • SALT, 3min,. Germany, Fashion/Experimental Film

    Salt tells the story of a group of people who shed their fear of the elemental forces of nature and instead rediscover the power of nature, returning more to their own roots.

    Directed by Dominik Hill

    Cast: Sophia Friesen, Marika Welling, Rachel Rep, Lotte Kleihaue, Aminata Sanogo, Nicola Müller...

  • SAUDADE, 6min., USA, Dance/Experimental

    A dancer faces a ghost of her past and has to come out victorious to find her true self once again.

    Directed by Josie Hull

    Cast: Gica Pucca, Constantin Augustinus Sieve

    https://www.gicapucca.com/portfolio
    https://www.instagram.com/gica.pucca/

  • ROGUE REFLECTION, 5min., USA, Experimental/Dance

    A tap dancer, discovering that her reflection refuses to mirror her movements, engages in a playful battle with herself.

    Directed by Juliet McMains

    Cast: Rachel Zuraek

    https://www.instagram.com/julietmcmains/

  • FLORA music video, 9min., Norway, Music/Experimental

    F L O R A is a low budget project. The video has scenes from my neighbourhoods natural surroundings and consists mainly of handheld spontaneous recordings depending on what happened around me during the time I was working on the project. I wanted to make a point that by allowing ourselves to appr...

  • CAÑA short film, 14min., Dance/Experimental

    This film is an investigation of movement within a natural landscape, of rich textures and textiles in motion, and of the mystery of ritual. It provides a window into a private world of a group of women, dancing together unselfconsciously among natural landscapes and dressed in lusciously colored...

  • Watch THE QUIET short film. 10min., Australia, Animation

    When an astronaut ponders on the quietude of space, he comes upon a startling self-realisation.

    The truth is written in the stars, but what will he uncover?

    Writer/Director: Radheya Jegatheva

    News & Reviews

    "Movie Review: The Quiet"

    Eventalaide

    https://eventalaide.com/arts/movies/movie-rev...

  • THE SLAUGHTERHAUS short film watch. Chile. Experimental/Thriller

    Based on a Nicanor Parra poem, A dystopian thriller about Meat Consumption and Global Warming.

    Directed by Gonzalo Sepulveda

    http://www.cinando.com/cintamanifilms
    https://www.facebook.com/cintamanifilms
    https://www.twitter.com/cintamanifilms

  • THE WICKLOW WITCHES short film watch, Animation/Experimental

    The story talks about the bond between two women from different background and generation: an old witch and a little girl.

    Submerged in a beautiful Irish landscape, the story is colored with magic potions, formulas, orations and picturesque scenario.

    The story of the two protagonists, will tran...

  • TODAY ARTIST, TONIGHT TAXIST short film watch, Romania, Experimental

    The film is about the last hours in the life of a young loser from Chisinau, who is neither a rocker, nor a taxi driver, not even a boyfriend. As a consequence - he makes an accident, in which he dies with a German customer, who has come to look for his grandfather’s grave, dead in the Second Wor...

  • LOST ON THE BEACH short film watch, 3min., USA

    An older man reflects on his loses.

    Directed by Vince Eisenson
    https://www.instagram.com/vinceeisenson

    Cast: Milo Eisenson, Alexander Julian, Matt Amick

  • FOREVER BOUND short film watch, Fashion/Experimental, Italy

    Directed by Rob Bell
    Written by Elisa Messi

    Poetry by Vittoria Aganoor Pompil

    For Forever Bound, we wanted to explore the theme of fate’s adversarial role in a relationship, how destiny, if you believe in such a thing, plays an important role in how our lives turn out. It’s an exciting challen...

  • SREBENICA short film watch, 1min., Political/Black & White

    This work is about Srebrenica, Bosnia, place of the last european genocide where thousands of muslim people were killed.

    The video can be seen both as a retranscription of the events and a reflection about the human condition.

    Firstly, the possibility of the horror in the human condition. The b...