1. The Uptown
A vacant theater still has “screenings” of its own: apparitions that come to life on a curved screen without anyone to see them, creating spectacular scenes without any projectors at all.
2. Animot (Animot)
The experimental documentary filmed at rescue centres in Prague and Vlašim refuses the anthropocentric perspective and views the world through the eyes of wounded animals. The term Animot was taken over from Jacque Derrida. While the French philosopher and deconstructivist uses the term to refer to everything animalistic and non-human, the film, on the other hand, uses intimate details to point out the proximity between human beings and animals. They are connected by their vulnerability, helplessness and mortality.
3. A Little Love
Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of love, what it means, and why it matters.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
4. Logistics (Logistics)
Logistics or Logistics Art Project is an experimental art film. At 51,420 minutes , it is the longest movie ever made. A 37 day-long road movie in the true sense of the meaning. The work is about Time and Consumption. It brings to the fore what is often forgotten in our digital, ostensibly fast-paced world: the slow, physical freight transportation that underpins our economic reality.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
5. Letter to L.Y
Letter to L.Y is Stephanie Mavi Garcia Panclas' second experimental film for their class. The film surrounds the feeling of nostalgia shown through the layering of video.
6. A Common Sequence
An interconnected look at tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, as seen through labor practices that link an endangered salamander, mass-produced apples, and the evolving fields of genomics and machine learning.
7. School of Babel (La cour de Babel)
They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks, conflicts and joys of this group of students aged 11 to 15 years, together in the same class to learn French.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
8. Garden of December 9th (Garden of December 9th)
Using variations of color and light, this is a method that I attempted to translate how I feel for a special someone on her special day.
9. Mother of the World
Six million tons, suspended by the slightest gesture. Mother of the World presents a series of brief vignettes of Cairo just prior to the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. These fragmented scenes choreograph class structure and foreign influence into an intimate, poetic view of a nation about to change.
10. Soap Opera of a Frozen Filmmaker
"Soap Opera of a Frozen Filmmaker" project is a series of seven episodes of cinematic diaries. It is the unique point of view of an anonymous artist whose entire essence of existence is to make films, but he is rejected on every front time after time. During the process he ponders his life as an artist, the nature of material society and life in general, in which his owm life eventually become a tragedy.
11. Cumulonimbus
A 1970 projection of what may come when pollution over powers nature.
12. to boyhood, i never knew him
Archive footage from 2006 - 2010 of a young girl growing up during the ages of four to eight. Only fragments of what is remembered exists. Words from a transgender man float to the surface as fleeting memories go on.
13. Origins of consciousness
Experimental meditation on land, complexity and evolution, consciousness, interconnection, and artificial intelligence. Shot in the Okanagan and West Kootenays of British Columbia, Canada. Original music by Jack Brintnell.
14. An Ordinary Texas Homicide
An experiment in video and sound collage by John Ledingham and Liam McCarrell restaging the assassination of John F. Kennedy as a reflection of our media landscape. Inspired by the novel "Libra" by Don DeLillo.
15. Atlas (Atlas)
An atmospheric journey, following the unstoppable forces that shape this world. A story beyond humanity.
16. Mom n' Me
The filmmaker traces the loss of her ancestral language over three generations of her family, and her own desire to recover it.
17. Shadows (Schatten)
Hansjürgen Pohland's short documentary is an audiovisual study that captures events and people on the streets on film. The special feature of the work is that the people and objects are portrayed exclusively through their shadows.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
18. Darwin's Darlings (Sliktie dzīvnieki)
Standing near the reptile section in a zoo for 26 minutes we can learn a lot about the animals on both sides of the separating glass.
19. The Disunited States of Canada (Les États-Désunis du Canada)
Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
20. The Birds Changed Names And The World Turned Into Ice (Las Aves Cambiaron De Nombre Y El Mundo Se Convirtió De Hielo)
Migrant families experience violence, but they also keep beautiful memories when they arrive in new lands. Fantastic and intimate stories, recalled from childhood, travel across time and space, magically intermingling with the help of the four elements and breaking the boundaries of cinema.
