Author: experimentalfilmfestival

Each stage of the moon’s cycle has an essence and a feeling. “When She Rises” invokes the feeling of an inward turn, and tells the story of quiet strength rising out of times spent in solitude and life’s shadows. In this it reflects the feeling of the waning moon; a descent through the inner layers… Continue reading Short Video: WHEN SHE RISES, 6min., Mexico, Music Video

Chris Friend is a multidisciplinary artist who is currently channeling his creativity through directing, visual effects, and drawing. He has done visual effects for Mr. Robot Season 4, Lady Gaga’s Joanne World Tour, Nike, and many independent feature films. He has also directed music videos for Dropkick Murphys, Black Deer, and Jason Grier of Human… Continue reading Director Biography – Chris Friend (Geneva Jacuzzi’s Casket)

“A Futuristic Head-Trip”***2066AD. Los Angeles. Kate Shaw is massively frustrated. She has several shipments of experimental Emote Cartridges past due for delivery to the World Wellness Watch, the current one-world government. Kate is going to miss the deadline. Execution is likely.The Pleasure-U BioDrone, her only assistant, has contracted an undiagnosed mental-disease. Kate Shaw is forced… Continue reading Short Video: Geneva Jacuzzi’s Casket, 6min., USA, Music Video

Jonas Ciurlionis is multiple award wining Lithuanian musician and composer, lyricist, music video director. Famous for his world – wide activity with rock band The Skys.He also has a PhD in Philosophy and teaches Aesthetics at Vilnius University, Vilnius Academy of Music and Theater (past) and many other universities world wide. Director Statement Create Art… Continue reading Director Biography – Jonas Čiurlionis (The Skys – Communication)

The SKYSMusic video: COMMUNICATION This music video tells the story of universal human need for communication. Communication itself has various forms. It transforms people. Lack of communication can cause problems, even depression. Communication can start wars and make peace. It can be both good and bad. It builds human relationships as well as destroys them.… Continue reading Short Video: The Skys – Communication, 3min., Lithuania, Music Video

TheFatRat, better known as the biggest gaming artist in the industry is taking his crossover to a new level in his latest single, teaming up with award-winning singer-songwriter Maisy Kay for “The Storm.” The vibrant music video behind “The Storm” is an ideal visual to go alongside such a unique song. Shot in the volcanic… Continue reading Short Video: THE STORM, 3min., Iceland, Music Video

When faced with confinement and conditions that change your work, there are new questions that accompany new approaches. I am confined to a new set of rules, a new landscape. What is my body ready to say when I have not been here before? Is anything certain – besides decline and decay? Searching for patterns… Continue reading Short Film: BEAUTY IN DECAY, 6min., Australia, Dance

A dance film about the gradual awakening of spirit and soul. About the emergence of sentience. About being — gradually ripping away from a primitive state. Discovery through gradual grasping and exploration. The Self evolving into self-consciousness. Aware of a higher order — no longer bound by the instinctive programming of the environment. Exaltation.

Bato’s main focus has always been to reinterpret any medium he works with. In an effort to give viewers a new way in which to enjoy media, Bato explores the non-traditional, hoping to push the boundaries of filmmaking past its current threshold. In 2008, Bato moved from Italy to California to produce editorial work for… Continue reading Director Biography – Andre Bato (EDGING NORMAL)

A metaphorical tale of a man’s struggle in letting go of his past in order to feel completely free. “Edging Normal” finds dancer Desmond Richardson channelling and interpreting the emotional journey of our protagonist. The film is a bitter sweet ode to the cyclical nature of one of many human struggles: growth.