Experimental Documentary Movies

A dystopian future that’s ever nearer, Acid City floats in toxic waters and is left to its own devices. But under the boiling sun, the city...

Roads fall into the sea and a travelogue breaks against the landscape.

This short documentary explores the intimate and unconventional life of my grandmother and her relationship with magic and with the love of her life....

In this experimental, self-ethnographic documentary, Tom Joslin blends breathtaking, moving snapshots from the natural world, filmic cultural...

In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its journey, the ghost discovers that the town still...

An examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing...

Searching for life in daily rituals, Losing Touch undertakes a shift in perception and presents the city as an ugly yet ecologically rich landscape. ...

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the...

Filmed throughout Ukraine just months before the full-scale Russian invasion, this vérité visual ethnography explores the overlaps of...

An Indonesian student in London attempts to deal with the absurdity of confinement and immobility due to then-ongoing coronavirus lockdown by talking...

Filmmaker Theo Anthony offers a far-ranging look at the biases in how people see things, focusing on the recorded image.

A letter writer reflects on the space and people she encounters in her never ending journey. A letter reader dreams of unexpected things in his never...

Eligibility is a film made by Ryan Cunningham. In this film, they discuss the question, "Why do I have to prove myself?" Through 80 minutes of...

Film ist. 1-6 is an avant-garde collage from Gustav Deutsch, using found footage from various scientific films to explore the properties, impact and...

This short experimental diary film reveals my struggles with mental illness in my adolescence and queer adulthood while simultaneously reflecting...

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is...

An experimental documentary in which the narrator evokes his childhood memories of Cyprus, and his connection to an indelible friendship defined by...

An intimate glimpse into 3 years of serene moments, compiling video, polaroids and other things that were lying around when editing.

The Eye explores silent landscapes where nature and absence coexist. Between the memory of places and resilience in the face of time, the film...

The Post(?) Feminist Dissonance Project uses a quote by Kathleen Hanna as a prompt, a voicemail box as an interviewing device, found footage as a...