Experimental Documentary Movies

On July 6, 2024, The Sun-Ray Cinema at 5 Points in Jacksonville, Florida screened its final film.

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

Istanbul: Chronopolis is an experimental documentary that explores the city as a living organism where the linear flow of time is disrupted and the...

Actors work with a director to find the rhythm of a scene.

A televisual stream of consciousness assembled from archival footage set in the Black media explosion of the 1980s. A frenetic remix of public access...

A documentary about a person who cleans his room with a vacuum cleaner, filled with disasters and mishaps.

Having lost her memory, A. could barely recall glimpses of her childhood in Argentina. After her death, her son visits the empty house for the last...

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

After a film festival gets his name wrong on the rejection email, a filmmaker (jokingly?) suggests they should select his film as an apology....

In 2002, Lana Kaiser became well known in the first season of the German version of the Idol television franchise. She was born in 1985 and went by...

an exploration of queerness and fear of illness through personal and shared experiences.

A portal, a sorceress, a fictional device to portray existence as a moment encapsulated inside an instantaneous photograph to present fragmented...

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

Young people who decide to leave their home to seek opportunities for the future face different difficulties on a daily basis. The inevitable...

In this experimental documentary, a transgender woman reflects on being harassed by a stranger.

A filmmaker’s meditation on loss and grief. A digital eulogy and swan song to his creative partner and best friend. Mixed media woven into the...

An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, following two people as they navigate their...