EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS
A collection of the best experimental short films from around the world today.
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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...
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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,
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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...
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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
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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
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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...
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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 ...
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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....
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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...
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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
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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...
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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
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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/
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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LOST ON THE BEACH short film watch, 3min., USA
An older man reflects on his loses.
Directed by Vince Eisenson
https://www.instagram.com/vinceeisensonCast: Milo Eisenson, Alexander Julian, Matt Amick
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FOREVER BOUND short film watch, Fashion/Experimental, Italy
Directed by Rob Bell
Written by Elisa MessiPoetry 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...
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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...