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Experimental Short Films

Watch the most original and creative short Experimental films from around the world. Discover alternative filmmaking techniques with our artistic collection of short films.

5/5

Hold the Lighthouse

A septuagenarian and his 8-year-old grandson are isolated in a small village in Gaspesie. The grandfather’s Alzheimer progresses and feel a certain attachment to…
  • Drama, Experimental
  • Canada
  • 2021
5/5

Motociclista

A girl and her dream of riding motorcycles….
  • Drama, Experimental
  • Germany
  • 2022
3/5

Life, Love & Lockup: Volume 1

10 Women came together to write a book about overcoming traumatic experiences including rape, domestic abuse, going to jail and much more. This documentary…
  • Documentary, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2019
3/5

Stormy Weather Rhapsody

The story of a group of dancers, an up-and-coming jazz vocalist, and an artistic director who are struggling to make a success of themselves…
  • Drama, Experimental, Music
  • United States
  • 2020
3/5

Corderas

Based on a true event, Corderas is film about sisterhood and the strain of physical distance from a loved one, and growing pains….
  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2022
5/5

The Internal Void of a Damaged Mind

A man wakes up, lost – where he is and what he sees challenges him to confront himself and his feelings….
  • Experimental, Thriller
  • Norway
  • 2022
4/5

The Fourfold

Based on the ancient shamanic rituals and animistic beliefs in Mongolia and Siberia, an exploration of the indigenous worldview and wisdom. With hand-crafted imagery,…
  • Animation, Documentary, Experimental
  • Canada
  • 2020
4/5

Mirage

A brief encounter between two strangers leads Rinah to examine their inner world. The beauty that they see in this stranger strikes her deeply….
  • Experimental, LGBTQ+
  • Finland
  • 2021
3/5

Folklore

A puppet anthology film inspired by Scandinavian folktales….
  • Experimental, Fantasy
  • United States
  • 2021
4/5

The Wounded and The Watcher

Watching a tragedy take place, a mysterious somebody does nothing but react….
  • Experimental, Mystery
  • United States
  • 2021
3/5

Weirdest Ritual

A fever dream like experience where love is the overriding emotion. Capturing the dreaminess and intense feeling of intoxicated love throughout the painterly frames….
  • Animation, Experimental, Music
  • Germany
  • 2021
4/5

A Social (Media) Construct

YouTuber and aspiring social media star Ameena, faces her inner demons and angels, as she attempts to create her newest video….
  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2021
5/5

Hear My Cry

Artist Jennifer Louise Martin’s new large-scale paintings continue to explore the expression of emotion and the female psyche, along with the projection of the…
  • Experimental
  • United Kingdom
  • 2022
3/5

Disconnected

A young college student disconnects from social media in an attempt to re-gain his self-control and discover meaningful interaction beyond an illuminated screen….
  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2018
4/5

Luck is Alive

The story of an African surfer who is a believer in Animism, a sensibility prevalent among surfers throughout Africa. Animism is based on the…
  • Experimental
  • South Africa
  • 2021
5/5

Where the Noise Ends

Two strangers are bound by their mental illnesses….
  • Drama, Experimental
  • United Kingdom
  • 2022
1/5

86 Fear

A townie’s drunken night out leads to eternal return, in this magical realist retelling of ‘A Christmas Carol’….
  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2020
5/5

Say the Quiet Part Loud

Kore, an alcoholic, heads towards a dissociative fugue state….
  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2022
3/5

A Dull Roar, then Light

A woman goes on a journey of self-discovery, exploring aspects of her wounded self-made manifest as other people….
  • Experimental, Fantasy
  • Australia
  • 2022
3/5

Day by Day

A film showcasing a character’s claustrophobic perspective of the world he’s forced to live in, his lack of trust with society and therefore rejects…
  • Drama, Experimental
  • United Kingdom
  • 2022
3/5

Erde (Earth)

Er·de [ˈe:ɐ̯də] – earth, ground, land, soil, dirt. There is only life on earth…
  • Experimental
  • Germany
  • 2022
5/5

Lullaby

A woman has visions of a dream come true….
  • Experimental, Mystery
  • United States
  • 2017
4/5

Poolside

Meg Stephens is a 1950’s high society housewife who put her dreams aside for her family but is left to fend for herself with…
  • Experimental, Thriller
  • United States
  • 2020
4/5

Infatuation

A male artist indulges in his love of the female form. That love is tainted when the female subjects make a choice to admire…
  • Experimental, Mystery
  • United States
  • 2020
4/5

Aquaria

“Aquaria” is about the protagonist’s journey to find out who she truly is. She lives in a parallel “fairytale” world. She is a hybrid…
  • Experimental, Fantasy
  • Germany
  • 2021
5/5

Panic

A visual story of a confident, energetic young man who experiences sudden panic attacks and anxiety and begins a journey of healing and adapting…
  • Documentary, Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2021
3/5

La Antiromantica

A young lesbian Colombian woman grapples with her romantic fantasies and the emptiness she feels at having never been in love before….
  • Experimental, LGBTQ+
  • United States
  • 2021
5/5

Do Butterflies Remember Being Caterpillars?

A childlike man embraces a dance journey that leads him into various set-ups of adulting. This makes the viewer wonder if he is a…
  • Experimental
  • Canada
  • 2021
3/5

Ghost Town

A man questions his reality after answering a mysterious phone call from a stranger….
  • Experimental, Music
  • United Kingdom
  • 2021
3/5

To A God Unknown

A journey within some poetic verses by Sergey Esenin and Arthur Rimbaud intertwining with a novel by John Steinbeck. To join each other are…
  • Drama, Experimental
  • Italy
  • 2020
5/5

Hold the Lighthouse

  • Drama, Experimental
  • Canada
  • 2021
A septuagenarian and his 8-year-old grandson are isolated in a small village in Gaspesie. The grandfather’s Alzheimer progresses and feel a certain attachment to his love, his wife, a memory that lasts. She stays in his mind, while the rest crumbles. The grandson tries his best to be a…
5/5

Motociclista

  • Drama, Experimental
  • Germany
  • 2022
A girl and her dream of riding motorcycles….
3/5

Life, Love & Lockup: Volume 1

  • Documentary, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2019
10 Women came together to write a book about overcoming traumatic experiences including rape, domestic abuse, going to jail and much more. This documentary is a glimpse into their stories….
3/5

Stormy Weather Rhapsody

  • Drama, Experimental, Music
  • United States
  • 2020
The story of a group of dancers, an up-and-coming jazz vocalist, and an artistic director who are struggling to make a success of themselves in spite of all of the challenges presented to them by friends, family members and the topsy-turvy political atmosphere. Set in modern day Chicago, this…
3/5

Corderas

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2022
Based on a true event, Corderas is film about sisterhood and the strain of physical distance from a loved one, and growing pains….
5/5

The Internal Void of a Damaged Mind

  • Experimental, Thriller
  • Norway
  • 2022
A man wakes up, lost – where he is and what he sees challenges him to confront himself and his feelings….
4/5

The Fourfold

  • Animation, Documentary, Experimental
  • Canada
  • 2020
Based on the ancient shamanic rituals and animistic beliefs in Mongolia and Siberia, an exploration of the indigenous worldview and wisdom. With hand-crafted imagery, a testament of reclaiming animism for planetary health and non-human materialities….
4/5

Mirage

  • Experimental, LGBTQ+
  • Finland
  • 2021
A brief encounter between two strangers leads Rinah to examine their inner world. The beauty that they see in this stranger strikes her deeply. Through their own internal journey, Rinah discovers that the beauty they see in this stranger is, in fact, the reflection of the very beauty within…
3/5

Folklore

  • Experimental, Fantasy
  • United States
  • 2021
A puppet anthology film inspired by Scandinavian folktales….
4/5

The Wounded and The Watcher

  • Experimental, Mystery
  • United States
  • 2021
Watching a tragedy take place, a mysterious somebody does nothing but react….
3/5

Weirdest Ritual

  • Animation, Experimental, Music
  • Germany
  • 2021
A fever dream like experience where love is the overriding emotion. Capturing the dreaminess and intense feeling of intoxicated love throughout the painterly frames….
4/5

A Social (Media) Construct

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2021
YouTuber and aspiring social media star Ameena, faces her inner demons and angels, as she attempts to create her newest video….
5/5

Hear My Cry

  • Experimental
  • United Kingdom
  • 2022
Artist Jennifer Louise Martin’s new large-scale paintings continue to explore the expression of emotion and the female psyche, along with the projection of the artist’s personal experience in becoming a mother and postpartum depression.

This is the artists first film and while she has more recently explored the narrative…

3/5

Disconnected

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2018
A young college student disconnects from social media in an attempt to re-gain his self-control and discover meaningful interaction beyond an illuminated screen….
4/5

Luck is Alive

  • Experimental
  • South Africa
  • 2021
The story of an African surfer who is a believer in Animism, a sensibility prevalent among surfers throughout Africa. Animism is based on the idea that everything is sentient: that inanimate objects, plants, animals or even entities such as the ocean have a spirit or a soul, often in…
5/5

Where the Noise Ends

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United Kingdom
  • 2022
Two strangers are bound by their mental illnesses….
1/5

86 Fear

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2020
A townie’s drunken night out leads to eternal return, in this magical realist retelling of ‘A Christmas Carol’….
5/5

Say the Quiet Part Loud

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2022
Kore, an alcoholic, heads towards a dissociative fugue state….
3/5

A Dull Roar, then Light

  • Experimental, Fantasy
  • Australia
  • 2022
A woman goes on a journey of self-discovery, exploring aspects of her wounded self-made manifest as other people….
3/5

Day by Day

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United Kingdom
  • 2022
A film showcasing a character’s claustrophobic perspective of the world he’s forced to live in, his lack of trust with society and therefore rejects it. And because of this rejection, what does he ultimately fall back on?…
3/5

Erde (Earth)

  • Experimental
  • Germany
  • 2022
Er·de [ˈe:ɐ̯də] – earth, ground, land, soil, dirt. There is only life on earth…
5/5

Lullaby

  • Experimental, Mystery
  • United States
  • 2017
A woman has visions of a dream come true….
4/5

Poolside

  • Experimental, Thriller
  • United States
  • 2020
Meg Stephens is a 1950’s high society housewife who put her dreams aside for her family but is left to fend for herself with the aid of alcohol, Librium and Valium, and her own mental stability in a massive modern home with a golf course view. While swimming in…
4/5

Infatuation

  • Experimental, Mystery
  • United States
  • 2020
A male artist indulges in his love of the female form. That love is tainted when the female subjects make a choice to admire their own beauty….
4/5

Aquaria

  • Experimental, Fantasy
  • Germany
  • 2021
“Aquaria” is about the protagonist’s journey to find out who she truly is. She lives in a parallel “fairytale” world. She is a hybrid of human and fish. This hybrid existence is something the director can personally identify with because she’s half Brazilian and half German. The question of…
5/5

Panic

  • Documentary, Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2021
A visual story of a confident, energetic young man who experiences sudden panic attacks and anxiety and begins a journey of healing and adapting to his new life….
3/5

La Antiromantica

  • Experimental, LGBTQ+
  • United States
  • 2021
A young lesbian Colombian woman grapples with her romantic fantasies and the emptiness she feels at having never been in love before….
5/5

Do Butterflies Remember Being Caterpillars?

  • Experimental
  • Canada
  • 2021
A childlike man embraces a dance journey that leads him into various set-ups of adulting. This makes the viewer wonder if he is a child becoming a man or a man seeking to be a child again….
3/5

Ghost Town

  • Experimental, Music
  • United Kingdom
  • 2021
A man questions his reality after answering a mysterious phone call from a stranger….
3/5

To A God Unknown

  • Drama, Experimental
  • Italy
  • 2020
A journey within some poetic verses by Sergey Esenin and Arthur Rimbaud intertwining with a novel by John Steinbeck. To join each other are primordial elements such as the water, blood, fire, love, God.

A deeper reading key suggests that the three chapters deals the theme of ritual sacrifice in…

5/5

Hold the Lighthouse

  • Drama, Experimental
  • Canada
  • 2021
A septuagenarian and his 8-year-old grandson are isolated in a small village in Gaspesie. The grandfather’s Alzheimer progresses and feel a certain attachment to his love, his wife, a memory that lasts. She stays in his mind, while the rest crumbles. The grandson tries his best to be a…
5/5

Motociclista

  • Drama, Experimental
  • Germany
  • 2022
A girl and her dream of riding motorcycles….
3/5

Life, Love & Lockup: Volume 1

  • Documentary, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2019
10 Women came together to write a book about overcoming traumatic experiences including rape, domestic abuse, going to jail and much more. This documentary is a glimpse into their stories….
3/5

Stormy Weather Rhapsody

  • Drama, Experimental, Music
  • United States
  • 2020
The story of a group of dancers, an up-and-coming jazz vocalist, and an artistic director who are struggling to make a success of themselves in spite of all of the challenges presented to them by friends, family members and the topsy-turvy political atmosphere. Set in modern day Chicago, this…
3/5

Corderas

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2022
Based on a true event, Corderas is film about sisterhood and the strain of physical distance from a loved one, and growing pains….
5/5

The Internal Void of a Damaged Mind

  • Experimental, Thriller
  • Norway
  • 2022
A man wakes up, lost – where he is and what he sees challenges him to confront himself and his feelings….
4/5

The Fourfold

  • Animation, Documentary, Experimental
  • Canada
  • 2020
Based on the ancient shamanic rituals and animistic beliefs in Mongolia and Siberia, an exploration of the indigenous worldview and wisdom. With hand-crafted imagery, a testament of reclaiming animism for planetary health and non-human materialities….
4/5

Mirage

  • Experimental, LGBTQ+
  • Finland
  • 2021
A brief encounter between two strangers leads Rinah to examine their inner world. The beauty that they see in this stranger strikes her deeply. Through their own internal journey, Rinah discovers that the beauty they see in this stranger is, in fact, the reflection of the very beauty within…
3/5

Folklore

  • Experimental, Fantasy
  • United States
  • 2021
A puppet anthology film inspired by Scandinavian folktales….
4/5

The Wounded and The Watcher

  • Experimental, Mystery
  • United States
  • 2021
Watching a tragedy take place, a mysterious somebody does nothing but react….
3/5

Weirdest Ritual

  • Animation, Experimental, Music
  • Germany
  • 2021
A fever dream like experience where love is the overriding emotion. Capturing the dreaminess and intense feeling of intoxicated love throughout the painterly frames….
4/5

A Social (Media) Construct

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2021
YouTuber and aspiring social media star Ameena, faces her inner demons and angels, as she attempts to create her newest video….
5/5

Hear My Cry

  • Experimental
  • United Kingdom
  • 2022
Artist Jennifer Louise Martin’s new large-scale paintings continue to explore the expression of emotion and the female psyche, along with the projection of the artist’s personal experience in becoming a mother and postpartum depression.

This is the artists first film and while she has more recently explored the narrative…

3/5

Disconnected

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2018
A young college student disconnects from social media in an attempt to re-gain his self-control and discover meaningful interaction beyond an illuminated screen….
4/5

Luck is Alive

  • Experimental
  • South Africa
  • 2021
The story of an African surfer who is a believer in Animism, a sensibility prevalent among surfers throughout Africa. Animism is based on the idea that everything is sentient: that inanimate objects, plants, animals or even entities such as the ocean have a spirit or a soul, often in…
5/5

Where the Noise Ends

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United Kingdom
  • 2022
Two strangers are bound by their mental illnesses….
1/5

86 Fear

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2020
A townie’s drunken night out leads to eternal return, in this magical realist retelling of ‘A Christmas Carol’….
5/5

Say the Quiet Part Loud

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2022
Kore, an alcoholic, heads towards a dissociative fugue state….
3/5

A Dull Roar, then Light

  • Experimental, Fantasy
  • Australia
  • 2022
A woman goes on a journey of self-discovery, exploring aspects of her wounded self-made manifest as other people….
3/5

Day by Day

  • Drama, Experimental
  • United Kingdom
  • 2022
A film showcasing a character’s claustrophobic perspective of the world he’s forced to live in, his lack of trust with society and therefore rejects it. And because of this rejection, what does he ultimately fall back on?…
3/5

Erde (Earth)

  • Experimental
  • Germany
  • 2022
Er·de [ˈe:ɐ̯də] – earth, ground, land, soil, dirt. There is only life on earth…
5/5

Lullaby

  • Experimental, Mystery
  • United States
  • 2017
A woman has visions of a dream come true….
4/5

Poolside

  • Experimental, Thriller
  • United States
  • 2020
Meg Stephens is a 1950’s high society housewife who put her dreams aside for her family but is left to fend for herself with the aid of alcohol, Librium and Valium, and her own mental stability in a massive modern home with a golf course view. While swimming in…
4/5

Infatuation

  • Experimental, Mystery
  • United States
  • 2020
A male artist indulges in his love of the female form. That love is tainted when the female subjects make a choice to admire their own beauty….
4/5

Aquaria

  • Experimental, Fantasy
  • Germany
  • 2021
“Aquaria” is about the protagonist’s journey to find out who she truly is. She lives in a parallel “fairytale” world. She is a hybrid of human and fish. This hybrid existence is something the director can personally identify with because she’s half Brazilian and half German. The question of…
5/5

Panic

  • Documentary, Drama, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2021
A visual story of a confident, energetic young man who experiences sudden panic attacks and anxiety and begins a journey of healing and adapting to his new life….
3/5

La Antiromantica

  • Experimental, LGBTQ+
  • United States
  • 2021
A young lesbian Colombian woman grapples with her romantic fantasies and the emptiness she feels at having never been in love before….
5/5

Do Butterflies Remember Being Caterpillars?

  • Experimental
  • Canada
  • 2021
A childlike man embraces a dance journey that leads him into various set-ups of adulting. This makes the viewer wonder if he is a child becoming a man or a man seeking to be a child again….
3/5

Ghost Town

  • Experimental, Music
  • United Kingdom
  • 2021
A man questions his reality after answering a mysterious phone call from a stranger….
3/5

To A God Unknown

  • Drama, Experimental
  • Italy
  • 2020
A journey within some poetic verses by Sergey Esenin and Arthur Rimbaud intertwining with a novel by John Steinbeck. To join each other are primordial elements such as the water, blood, fire, love, God.

A deeper reading key suggests that the three chapters deals the theme of ritual sacrifice in…

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