Genres: experimental

  • El cuento (The Story)

    A haunting and poetic vision of war and its effects on everyday life, created without images of war. The film’s structure is drawn from road signs found as fragments of a trip, with the quotidian images – of landscapes, city life, children playing, a wedding – collected like a diary in a combination of richly saturated colour and high-contrast black-and-white footage. In contrast to the emotive quality of the imagery and music, the voice-over/text provides a dispassionate and chilling guide on what to expect and how to behave in times of war: “Before proceeding with the burial, it is important…

  • Solar Sight

    “A question I had in mind was: what is the place of the human being in the cosmos? More and more we think about what is ‘beyond’. Less and less is art concerned. I don’t know why. The question may seem a bit grandiose, but I have approached it quite simply in the film. For one thing, I have never worked with color photography as primary background to cut-out animation before. I was surprised that the result was so powerful (helped by John Davis’ very resonant music). “It was liberating to release human figures into an apperception of suggested space,…

  • La Revue

    Art forms have been killing each other off for centuries. In an artistic autopsy, Aiken and Majzels examine the death of vaudeville. Through dance, performance and music, this film uses the trappings of vaudeville to tell the story of its demise. With a cabaret of sad double acts, aging burlesque dancers and tired magicians, the film takes a humorous and macabre look into the forgotten arts.

  • Dripping Water

    “You see nothing but a white, crystal white plate, and water dripping into the plate, from the ceiling, from high, and you hear the sound of the water dripping. The film is ten minutes long. I can imagine only St. Francis looking at a water plate and water dripping so lovingly, so respectfully, so serenely. The usual reaction is: ‘Oh, what is it anyhow? Just a plate of water dripping.’ But that is a snob remark. That remark has no love for the world, for anything. Snow and Wieland’s film uplifts the object, and leaves the viewer with a finer…

  • Fabric

    “Fabric” is an experimental narrative about a woman’s attempts to reconnect with her family. The film uses magical realism to visualize a physical process of grief, exploring both real and imagined spaces.

  • Generations

    “Generations” is a film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Seventy-year-old acclaimed director Barbara Hammer hands her camera to Gina Carducci, an aspiring queer filmmaker. The women, each shooting her own footage during the last days of Astroland at Coney Island, find that the inevitable fact of ageing echoes in the architecture of the amusement park. Separately editing their respective footage, the filmmakers ultimately blend their work, thereby creating a true generational, experimental document. World premiere at MoMA; winner of the Teddy Award for Best Short Film at the Berlin Film Festival; and winner of…

  • Color Study

    A humorous, digitally induced meditation on colors, motion and space from a few frames of road side fall panorama in upstate NY.

  • Some Day My Prince Will Come

    There is a world where no one wants what they can’t have – they get exactly what they want. Shaped by years of media persuasion with problematic seduction narratives, “Some Day My Prince Will Come” is the creation of fantasies that viewers are encouraged to believe in. Through a reconstruction of these narratives, an exploration of how reality is co-opted by desperation guides us in to the mind of the viewer.

  • Wildblood

    “Wildblood” is the third piece in a trilogy of animated shorts by Los Angeles artist David Jones. The film takes its inspiration from queer zines and the San Francisco homocore music scene of the early 90s. The artist was a member of the seminal band Fagbash and considers the piece reminiscent of the type of making indicative of this period. It is constructed entirely of xerox collages re-photographed and animated digitally.

  • JPT

    Through the use of animated still images and utilizing the familiar tropes of music video, “JPT” is a portrait of a young man’s emerging sexuality and the range of emotions surrounding this experience. It is the first of several “live” animations by Los Angeles artist David Jones.