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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.

3/5
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

Folklore

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

The Wounded and The Watcher

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

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

Where the Noise Ends

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

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
REVIEW

Say the Quiet Part Loud

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

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

Erde (Earth)

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

Lullaby

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

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

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
REVIEW

Ghost Town

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

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
2/5
REVIEW

Lockdown

A short film about two different women’s lives in confinement….
  • Drama, Experimental
  • Spain
  • 2020
3/5
REVIEW

Reverse the Punishment

A visually destructive reverse narrative….
  • Experimental, Horror
  • United States
  • 2021
4/5
REVIEW

Look At Us Now

The film explores the societal impact of Comic Book culture and its importance to fans, while also telling the story of how geek culture…
  • Documentary, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2021
3/5
REVIEW

The Message in the Bottle

David is an alcoholic in denial of his addiction. After losing his long -time partner over a heated argument, David goes through a series…
  • Experimental, Thriller
  • South Africa
  • 2021
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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…
REVIEW
3/5

Folklore

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

The Wounded and The Watcher

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

REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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…
REVIEW
5/5

Where the Noise Ends

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

Say the Quiet Part Loud

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

Erde (Earth)

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

Lullaby

  • Experimental, Mystery
  • United States
  • 2017
A woman has visions of a dream come true….
REVIEW
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…
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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…
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
3/5

Ghost Town

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

REVIEW
2/5

Lockdown

  • Drama, Experimental
  • Spain
  • 2020
A short film about two different women’s lives in confinement….
REVIEW
3/5

Reverse the Punishment

  • Experimental, Horror
  • United States
  • 2021
A visually destructive reverse narrative….
REVIEW
4/5

Look At Us Now

  • Documentary, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2021
The film explores the societal impact of Comic Book culture and its importance to fans, while also telling the story of how geek culture went from being a punchline to a global phenomenon. Based on the poem by Vee The Vision….
REVIEW
3/5

The Message in the Bottle

  • Experimental, Thriller
  • South Africa
  • 2021
David is an alcoholic in denial of his addiction. After losing his long -time partner over a heated argument, David goes through a series of dreams where he is being chased by a mysterious character. It is during these dreams where he learns how to take back his power…
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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…
REVIEW
3/5

Folklore

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

The Wounded and The Watcher

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

REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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…
REVIEW
5/5

Where the Noise Ends

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

Say the Quiet Part Loud

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

Erde (Earth)

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

Lullaby

  • Experimental, Mystery
  • United States
  • 2017
A woman has visions of a dream come true….
REVIEW
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…
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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…
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
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….
REVIEW
3/5

Ghost Town

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

REVIEW
2/5

Lockdown

  • Drama, Experimental
  • Spain
  • 2020
A short film about two different women’s lives in confinement….
REVIEW
3/5

Reverse the Punishment

  • Experimental, Horror
  • United States
  • 2021
A visually destructive reverse narrative….
REVIEW
4/5

Look At Us Now

  • Documentary, Experimental
  • United States
  • 2021
The film explores the societal impact of Comic Book culture and its importance to fans, while also telling the story of how geek culture went from being a punchline to a global phenomenon. Based on the poem by Vee The Vision….
REVIEW
3/5

The Message in the Bottle

  • Experimental, Thriller
  • South Africa
  • 2021
David is an alcoholic in denial of his addiction. After losing his long -time partner over a heated argument, David goes through a series of dreams where he is being chased by a mysterious character. It is during these dreams where he learns how to take back his power…

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