Experimental Film Movies

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

1977 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

An early experimental abstract animation, made by drawing directly on to 16mm film.

A static close-up of a clock. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

1959 experimental short by Jim Davis.

"The cinematic mechanism cannot be completely deconstructed without resort to other means of mechanical image reproduction; a double system of...

Naturalness willfully corrupted by inevitable self-consciousness, unwittingly corrupted by unavoidable naturalness, a role played with incredible...

Regrettably, the labour of projectionists is usually only considered by the audience when they ‘screw up’. This film offers an...

Experimental short 16mm film directed by Mike Henderson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Writes Ando, "Oh! My Mother was the first work I made using a newly bought 16mm camera I had purchased with the writer Shuji Terayama in Paris. This...