Experimental Documentary Movies

Filmmakers Sam and Amy journey into rural Australia to explore how the legacy of an American legend has transmitted and warped itself over time, and...

Blending archival footage, haunting melodies, and digital reconstructions, Hyjnesha në Fron traces the echo of loss across Kosovo's turbulent...

This short documentary explores the intimate and unconventional life of my grandmother and her relationship with magic and with the love of her life....

Faced with an assignment to film something personal, Cem begins a quiet search for what that really means. A casual conversation with a close friend...

What are they? What do they seek? When all the lights go out, they will wander. And you will never see them.

Three individuals find themselves in the same strange dream in which they are haunted by an evolutionary ghost. Together, they share in each...

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

"An experimental documentary on Reverend L.O. Taylor, a black Baptist minister from Memphis, Tennessee who was also an inspired filmmaker with an...

Documentary discussing expectations in sexual and intimate situations, by blending people's anonymous stories, poetry and dance.

Rummage is an experimental documentary of the legendary rummage sale that takes place in Far Hills, New Jersey every first weekend in May and October.

The world through an unconventional lens.

A grandmother faintly narrates her quilts, as seen through the warped glass lens of a broken camera, a laptop webcam, and a clunky Xerox scanner.

Based upon a habitual fidget of the filmmaker involving the tags in his clothing, Reilly Mitchell explores the feelings of his past by removing...

An experimental short assembled from YouTube videos of the director’s former classmate, TV fragments, and a 2006 graduation interview recorded...

Disjointed moments from the filmmakers’ daily lives during the past year. Captured on a 1985 VHS camcorder with color and luminosity distorted...

A meditation on childhood, loss, and the desire to recreate one’s innocence; the recalling of memories.

A shot-on-video look at three impoverished Black communities in rural Georgia in 1976 - America's bicentennial, interspersing photos with footage and...