Experimental Films

Experimental Films

Experimental movies: new independent films and classics of experimental cinema that seek new languages and new ways of cinematographic art.

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Experimental Films
  • Artistic Mystery

    Movie

    Short film, by Andrea Malandra, Italy, 2016.
    The film is a tribute toto the Italian cartoonist Andrea Pazienza. The surreal plot is supported by far-fetched characters who live in urban spaces, creating dreamlike states and comic gags.

    LANGUAGE: italian
    SUBTITLES: english

  • Todosentimento

    Movie

    Short movie, music, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy, 2018.
    “Todosentimento” as well as revealing a piece of music of the highest quality, contributes to the knowledge of one of the most felt artistic relations of Italian-Brazilian language, Maria Pia De Vito - Chico Buarque. The protagonist is a po...

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    Movie

    Documentary, by Dziga Vertov, Russia, 1929.
    After a few years spent making propaganda documentaries, Dziga Vertov realizes his masterpiece, inspired by the theories on reality cinema and Kinoglaz. An experimental visual symphony with futurist roots. An ordinary day of a cinematographer wandering ...

  • Three Songs about Lenin

    Movie

    Documentary, by Dziga Vertov, Russia, 1934.
    The most famous film while the director Dziga Vertov was alive, a great success of socialist documentary cinema. An experimental documentary celebrating Lenin with the use of sound and folk songs. The liberation of Muslim women in Uzbekistan, footage of...

  • The Holy Mountain

    Movie

    Sci-fi, drama, by Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973, Mexico.
    A man, nicknamed The thief, who represents the Fool's card in the Tarot, lies unconscious in a desert, among swarms of flies. When he wakes up he encounters a footless and handless dwarf representing the Five of Swords. The two become friends ...

  • About Nice

    Movie

    Documentary, by Jean Vigo, France, 1930.
    With an old used movie camera bought with the money loaned by his wife's father, Jean Vigo shoots a documentary about Nice. Meeting Boris Kaufman changes the French director's initial project, which will be influenced by Dziga Vertov's operator. The nature...

  • Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis

    Movie

    Documentary, by Walter Ruttmann, Germany, 1928.
    One of the most important avant-garde films of the "city symphony" genre, inspired by Dziga Vertov's "The Man with the Camera" and Soviet editing theories. The film marks the passage of the artist Walter Ruttmann from abstract cinema to reality cine...

  • Intolerance

    Movie

    Short film, fantasy, by Giuliano Giacomelli, Lorenzo Giovenga, Italy, 2020.
    A deaf homeless man manages to save a girl from the clutches of a rapist. Shocked and moved, the girl is very grateful to the man and she would like to repay. The homeless man wants nothing in return, until a pair of magn...

  • The House is Black

    Movie

    Documentary, by Forough Farrokhzad, Iran, 1963.
    The House is Black is a lyrical, transcendent film that places a gaze full of compassion and religiosity towards a suffering humanity. The only source of harmony is found outside the leper colony, in nature: suffering reigns inside. Not even religio...

  • Glumov's Diary

    Movie

    Short film, comedy, by Sergei Eisenstein, 1923, Soviet Union.
    The film consists of 3 parts. The opening scene begins with a shot of Eisenstein taking off his cap and bowing in front of the poster revealing the stage play, followed by a shot of Grigori Aleksandrov as Glumov, in front of the same p...

  • Redemption

    Movie

    Drama, by Maria Martinelli, Italy, 2023.
    Hanna meets her lover in an isolated place, a refuge in the mountains. The present and the past intertwine in search of a possible redemption, while the choices to be made, such as that of a child on the way, can no longer wait. In that place, together and...

  • Brussel: Housing, Transport & People

    Movie

    Documentary, by Fedele Aula, 1997, Italy.
    A short observational documentary that takes us back to Brussels in the 1990s. The director films neighborhoods, houses, trams, daily activities, people, and cars that appear and disappear through crossfades like ghosts. A moment in time and a magnetic me...

  • Old Wood Washed up by the Sea...

    Movie

    Documentary by Fedele Aula, Simona Molari, Italy, 1998.
    A rare archival film of an exhibition dedicated exclusively to objects washed up on beaches and transformed into works of art. The archaeology of moving images meets the archaeology of physical artifacts and their transformation into somethi...

  • Feast

    Movie

    Documentary, by Franco Piavoli, 2018, Italy.
    Franco Piavoli, author of the masterpiece "The Blue Planet", returns to the director to capture the "evening of the day of celebration", between Leopardi and Pascoli. A journey between the poetic and the anthropological. What is a "feast"? What does it...

  • The Sands
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    The Sands

    Movie + 1 extra

    Science fiction, by Noah Paganotto, Argentina, 2022.
    In an undetermined location on planet Earth, in an unknown time, Zoilo lives with his family in a wasteland surrounded by ruins. They live uprooted, without mothers, knowing that pregnancy for women is synonymous with death. For them there is o...

  • In Their Own Time

    Movie

    In Their Own Time is the journey of three women – Srija, Tuhnu and Jhumur – who reflect on love, loss, childhood, friendship and a sense of belonging over the course of three years; we never see their faces, as the evolution of their experiences unfolds through an intrinsically dynamic and increa...

  • T.O.F. (Two Old Friends)

    Movie

    Short film, by Massimiliano Buzzanca, Stefano Scaramuzzino, Italy, 2025.
    In a timeless retirement home, two elderly men — one convinced he is Batman, the other sure he is the Joker — engage in a surreal confrontation that oscillates between lost memory, lucid madness, and heroic nostalgia. One we...

  • Investigation of Six Pieces of Noisy Life Dispersed in a Sultry Summer

    Movie

    Documentary, by Ilaria Pezone, Italy, 2016.
    A documentary shot as "proximity film", intimate filming with a "sensible structural" scheme. The confidential atmosphere originates from the closeness between the author and the characters: a closeness that is necessary to create a communicative intima...

  • Studies: on Complexity and Differences

    Movie

    Short film, by Ilaria Pezone, Italy, 2016.
    The animations, conceived as visual representations of some basic points for understanding the universe as a complex system, based on fundamental differences that determine various adaptive modalities in organisms, are intended as a complement to the ori...

  • Meshes of the Afternoon

    Movie

    Experimental short film, by Maya Deren, United States, 1943.
    Meshes of the Afternoon is one of the masterpieces of surrealistic cinema and American avant-garde and has become an iconic work in the world of experimental cinema. The film is characterized by a non-linear and dreamlike narrative that...

  • A Page Of Madness

    Movie

    Drama, horror, by Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan, 1926.
    A page of madness is an independent film shot on a nearly non-existent budget and then lost for forty-five years. Fortunately the director rediscovered it in his archive in 1971. It is a film made by a group of Japanese avant-garde artists, the S...

  • Haxan

    Movie

    Documentary, by Benjamin Christensen, Sweden, 1922.
    Desecration of tombs, torture, demon-possessed nuns and witches' sabbath: Haxan, Witchcraft Through the Ages is an incredibly original and unconventional film that has become legendary over time. Between documentary and dramatic fiction, the fil...

  • The doors of perception

    Movie

    Experimental, by Morgan Menegazzo, Mariachiara Pernisa, Italy, 2019.
    The doors of perception is the personal attempt to evoke a metaphysics of images and light, arbitrarily recalling the dividing structure interposed between the presbyterial area and that reserved for the faithful in the Orthodox...

  • Dementia

    Movie

    Horror, noir, by John Parker, United States, 1955.
    It's night. A woman suddenly wakes up from a nightmare in a seedy hotel in the Los Angeles suburbs. She leaves the room and wanders the neighborhood. She meets a dwarf who sells newspapers with the title "Mysterious Stabbing". In a dark alley, a ...