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A young adult's first-hand account of "accidentally becoming human again" after, and with, trauma induced depression. Lo-fi, vulnerable, and uniquely...

Experimental short film about the fragility of time

Short film by Paul Clipson from the Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies DVD

The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some explores our human adaptability in light of catastrophe by way of seminal...

Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

Slow disintegration and aging of artists head, revealing underlying bone structure. Created using old picture-phone technology. New music added in...

Future Shocked is an experimental visual film.

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

Made up of piano, this shows Basinski's patented tape-loop technique perfectly and still stands as one of his most affecting pieces of music; still...

Jon Rafman's short features computer-generated renders of the Twin Towers and a narration from Charles Baudelaire's "Le Guignon."

An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

The story is the closure, the film is how pain and anxiety are carried by the wind. There is no use trying to exert control, it only causes the...

FUDDY DUDDY uses the motif of the grid to blow it to pieces. Being occupied with structural film, I repeatedly draw 'frame plans', using grid...

Short experimental film.

This, the third of the Sexual Meditation Series, might also be seen as a triangular portrait of Julia and P. Adams Sitney and Jane Brakhage.

This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied...

Avant-garde composer John Cage is famous for his experimental pieces and "chance music" but temporarily branched into video in 1992 with this art...

This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem.

A photogram, used previously only within art photography, is adapted to create abstract moving patterns.

A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth.