A static camera records, in one single continuous shot, a woman's face before, during and after orgasm. The act of looking and the limits of the film frame are highlighted in this intimate sexual episode with Tina Fraser. Artist Stephen Dwoskin presents a powerful, personal moment while maintaining a distance and resisting the viewer being subsumed into the action on screen.
Taking its title from the poem by Wallace Stevens, the film is composed of a series of attempts at l...
In making this piece, Bourque literally distorted the personal home movie images appearing on the fi...
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...
This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols)...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Pe...
The collective life of the generation born as Jurij Gagarin became the first man in space. Vitaly Ma...
Clouds 1969 by the British filmmaker Peter Gidal is a film comprised of ten minutes of looped footag...
Filmmakers use archival footage and animation to explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, th...
An experimental documentary about the spectacle of substance abuse on social media. More than 45 hou...
"Adrift" is shot on the arctic island of Spitzbergen and in Norway. It combines time-lapse photograp...
An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of...
An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.
This collection of David Lynch's short films cover the first 29 years of his career. Each film is gi...
THE SCREEN TESTS OF COSMOTROPIA DE XAM A collection of 12 screen tests from all over the world, bas...
Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he ...
William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.
A film about friendship and the occasional loneliness.
A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound ...