Author: experimentalfilmfestival

Directed by Zung LaAn experimental project by young choreographer Chi Nguyen and director La Zung. In collaboration with talented musicians and dancers, this short film reflects the unique perspectives of genders in today’s society through the medium of dance. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Director Biography – Zung La La Zung graduated with a master’s degree… Continue reading Short Film: JASMIN, 9min., Vietnam, Experimental/Dance

Directed by Mistaya HemingwayAt Lake is a revisioning of Maya Deren’s iconic 1944 film, At Land. Shot in Eastern Quebec, At Lake is a meditation on nature and the relationships between movement, landscape and chance. At Lake will take you by the hand and bring you deep into the forest, deep into the lake and… Continue reading Short Film: AT LAKE, 13min., Canada, Experimental/Dance

Directed by Shara Ashley Zeiger“I Mustache You” is a whimsical magical realistic comedy, inspired by Buster Keaton, Looney Tunes, and NYC about Abby, a woman with social anxiety, OCD and agoraphobic tendencies who receives an invitation to love, self acceptance, and the outside world. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Project Links  Website  Facebook  Twitter  Instagram… Continue reading Short Film: I MUSTACHE YOU, 14min., USA, Experimental/Comedy

Directed by Ka Chun HuiThe film was inspired by the abstract painting “La danseuse” by Lalan Xie, the artist reflects the connections between the real world to the imaginary world of the painting. The piece has been evolving through the creation process, from static to dynamic, from plane to three-dimensional. The creation reveals the sense… Continue reading Short Film: BEYOND THE VEIL, 7min., Hong Kong, Experimental/Dance

Directed by Emily PenickIn this wordless, experimental film, a powerful goddess meets her match. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Project Links  Website  Instagram Director Biography – Emily Penick Emily is a writer / director with a background in directing and choreographing stage plays. In NYC, she has worked at Playwrights Horizons, 2nd Stage, New Dramatists, The… Continue reading Short Film: THE CORONATION, 12min., USA, Experimental/Dance

Directed Jamie WestonThe four elements earth, air, fire and water, meet together in an ancient forest to celebrate midsummer. Their lives change forever as they are polluted by the new world around them. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Director Biography – Jamie Weston Hello! I’m a multi award winning, British born English / Caribbean, Director &… Continue reading Short Film: TERMINUS, 7min., UK, Experimental/Dance

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:BEST FILM: AXIOMATABEST PERFORMANCES: ECLIPSEBEST DIRECTION: JOYFULBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: AN ICE THING TO SAYBEST SOUND & MUSIC: MAGPIE Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film: AN ICE THING TO SAY, 16min,. UK, ExperimentalDirected by Mayra Stergiou In an Icy land of ruins, a human… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: April 2022 Experimental Film Festival

Directed by Mayra StergiouIn an Icy land of ruins, a human being and a polar bear are meeting in an encounter of surviving the Anthropocene Era.“An Ice Thing to Say” is an experimental dance film that blends Ice installation, original music and contact improvisation to explore our impact on nature. Drawing on inspiration from Erich… Continue reading Short Film: AN ICE THING TO SAY, 16min,. UK, Experimental

Directed by Ivan Maria FriedmanCaught in the limbo of an underworld where time and conventional reality ceases to exist, Elena emerges from the collapse of her captivity upon the event of a lunar eclipse. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Short synopsis:Elena is prisoner in a dark realm not of this world, where the lines between… Continue reading Short Film: ECLIPSE, 17min., Switzerland, Experimental

Directed by Kevin Andrew HeslopAn interpretation of Catriona Wright’s poem “Magpie” which explodes domesticity. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Project Links  Website Director Biography – Kevin Andrew Heslop Kevin Andrew Heslop is a polydisciplinary doofus whose debut collection of poetry, the correct fury of your why is a mountain, appeared with Gordon Hill Press in 2021;… Continue reading Short Film: MAGPIE, 2min., Canada, Poem