Experimental Movies

This expressive and experimental short film by Iain Delavan features two distinct emotionally significant videos, broken up by an ethereal synthetic...

Darkness and light, as seen by VIFF’s favourite Buddhist erotist. Part of the TOKYO LOOP animation anthology produced by ImageForum Japan.

This film is about a conversation between a woman and an old house.

Four friends leave Seattle for a weekend in a remote, rain-soaked corner of Washington State's rustic Skagit Valley. The foreboding October landscape...

'star born brutal' is a diaristic exploration of liberation and trauma, in which recurrent memories oscillate between the Imaginary and the Real. The...

In this animated video Shiboogi, American artist Takeshi Murata transforms TV commercials from the 1980s that he had discovered by chance in a record...

Set on the farm in Gribbohm where the artist was born and raised, Meechfieber recounts the grotesque adventures of a farm couple who must come to...

A short experimental tone-poem documentary that explores three stages of the gentrification of Seattle.

Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre Cantu Ledesma.

Super 8 black and white short film.

2011 remake of 2009's experimental short Pending Title

This one is a collage of Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s and 1960s, filmed directly from the television set. The constantly recurring motifs of...

Overripe with psychosexual poetry and stark, oneiric rituals, Adachi's filmmaking debut, made while he was still an undergraduate, counts among the...

String Quartet No.2, (1983) From the Seven Days, (1968)

A study on the concept of super-organisms, and the relationship between structure and nature, INFRASTRATA is the solo debut of British filmmaker...

A collection of interwoven images are threaded together by a string of unspecified women who roam their dreamscape which they are unable to escape....

An homage to the influential practice and philosophy of artist Nasreen Mohamedi. The film incorporates Mohamedi’s personal notes and her unique...

This handmade silent film is a sociopolitical satire of our everyday life in Cyprus. Part of the Cyprus Collage Trilogy.

Filmed at Masonboro Island, an undeveloped barrier island in southeastern North Carolina, “Tides” contemplates the liminal space between...