Watch Festival: EXPERIMENTAL/DANCE/MUSIC shorts
Independent, Short Films
See the full lineup of films:
inner necessity, 10min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Ethan Wagner
"The artist is not only justified in using any form necessary for their purposes, but it is [their] very duty to do so."
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-inner-necessity
La Ghostification, USA, Musical
Directed by Lena Glikson
A surreal and symbolic journey through the inner world of a girl processing abandonment and emotional distress. Through haunting imagery — from mirrored selves red to threads like tears and disturbed dancing — the video explores the psychological aftermath of being ghosted. Set to a dark, emotionally charged track, the visuals blur the line between dream and nightmare, revealing a desperate attempt to communicate with someone who has vanished without a trace.
https://www.instagram.com/lena_glikson_mx/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-la-ghostification
ECHO OF SILENCE, 14min., Poland, Experimental
Directed by Mateusz Wawrzyniak, Patrycja Wasiak, Piotr Kuniewski
In a world where everyone is surrounded by many yet feels alone you struggle to stay afloat. Echo of Silence is a story about overcoming inner darkness and finding strength to stand against all odds.
https://instagram.com/moffy.digital/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-echo-of-silence
PATIENT, 6min., Canada
Directed by Sofia Auza
A poetry video about living with chronic pain under the medical industrial complex
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-patient
Everyone Wants a Tight Pussy, 1min.,
Directed by Sofia Auza
A poetry video about living with chronic vaginal pain
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-everyone-wants-a
Med Selkies, 11min., UK
Directed by Kelly Ann Buckley
Med Selkies is a poetic film exploring a near-future climate crisis where land is ravaged, and a lone human drifts at sea. Succumbing to the depths, the human encounters an ancestral, aquatic force - beings who once diverged from humanity to adapt to life beneath the waves.
https://www.instagram.com/k_a_b_art_n_sound
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-med-selkies
Home, 11min., Belgium
Directed by Hanne Schillemans, Ralph Timmermans
Home is a short film about the fragility of life and the virtue of solitude. A faceless figure attempting not to resist the endless waves of pointlessness.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-home-experimental
Oasis, 9min., Mexico
Directed by Hugo Hernández Jiménez
An immersive and vibrant journey into the heart of Mexican lucha libre, where Arena Querétaro emerges as a living protagonist, welcoming its spectators and inviting them to delve into the essence of the fight. Through the accounts of local wrestlers, the magic and myth of pancracio intertwine with the culture and emotions of a community that gathers around the ring, rejoicing, cheering, and raging alongside the protagonists of the fight.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-oasis-film
ICEBERG, 6min., France
Directed by Léo Poulain
A motivated young woman feels herself overwhelmed because of her work. Her life is reduced to a run against time, always bearing her problems with a smile, until all her frustrations blows up.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-iceberg
The Floating Life | UNTAMED, 21min., China
Directed by Yuyang Cheng
This signifies a life voyage, profound and poetic in its silence, as a multimedia artist and director, Cheng combines contemporary dance and multimedia and installation including AI as her poetic language which explores bodies as a unique medium in urban spaces, natural landscapes and the spiritual world under the oriental context. Imagine that your spiritual world and body coverage into a whisper towards nature. Our body landscape become the medium discusses the uniqueness among urban space, landscape and spiritual world. Dancing with the soul throughout a lifetime. We are just like a grain of dust floating through a silent journey towards the shimmering light at the end of darkness...
https://www.instagram.com/floatinglifeperformance
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-floating-life