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Spin " This tape documents an interesting period of time in the early '90s when people with a satellite dish could receive pre-air non-broadcast feeds. The author captured hundreds of hours of this footage and it is an invaluable look at the way politicians craft media appearances. An extremely valuable tape, both for the general knowledge of media and a specific look at the 1992 presidential race. "
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Workers Leaving the Googleplex "Workers Leaving the Googleplex investigates a top secret, marginalized class of workers at Google's international corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley. The video documents the yellow badge-wearing ScanOps Google Books workers, while simultaneously chronicling the complex events surrounding my own dismissal from the company. The reference to the Lumière Brother's 1895 film Workers Leaving the Factory situates the video within motion picture history, suggesting transformations and continuities in arrangements of labour, capital, media, and information."
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Filmmaker Profile: Deborah Stratman This video introduces the films of Deborah Stratman, an experimental filmmaker and artist based in Chicago.
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Joseph Paris by Alejandro Van Zandt-Escobar Joseph Paris in conversation with Alejandro Van Zandt-Escobar on the topic of his film, 'The Flag', an experimental documentary that deals with the rise of Islamaphobia and xenophobia in France.
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typhoon diary 风球日记 website
Website for the experimental film typhoon diary 风球日记 (2024).
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Why You Should Watch Experimental Documentaries Youtube essay that explains the genre of experimental documentary and discusses several films important to the genre.
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88:88 Trailer Trailer for 88:88.
" 88:88, —:—, flashes, demonstrating those who live in poverty live in suspended time. "
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Tepian Laut Utara (The Harbor) Bangsal is the gateway to international tourism routes to three islands, namely Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air. Various kinds of professions can be found here, including labourers, airut pol (seawater police), motorcycle taxi drivers, Cidomo driver (Lombok-style horse-powered transportation), hawkers, souvenir merchants, even ticket mafias and gamblers, all gathered in that small harbour. The people who live in tourist attractions (Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air) also use Bangsal as their daily transportation route to Pemenang Market which is the economic centre of the people of Pemenang Subdistrict.
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Landscape Series #1 As the journey starts, wide empty landscapes make one wonder what one is looking for. A mysterious object? A crime scene? Something horrifying? The scenes are getting more and more specific, but they do not lead to any concrete solution – only an injury in place of a metaphor.
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Ubu Web Film & Video
Free online archive of experimental film and video.
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Bomb Magazine Interview with Peter Snowdon
"Snowdon on the layering of realities in his new film, The Uprising, a blend of fictional narrative and documentary footage of the Arab Spring uprisings."
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Reciprocal Sacrifice "Caycedo’s film, Reciprocal Sacrifice, takes viewers on the journey of a salmon seeking to return to its spawning grounds in the Sawtooth Mountains. The salmon narrates the challenges it faces as it swims upstream and tells of the heating of the water in the lakes, creeks and rivers in the Snake River Basin.
With voiceovers by members of the Nez Perce Tribe, viewers learn of the salmon’s generosity in sustaining people and ecosystems over generations. Caycedo writes, “this performative generosity is at the core of regional indigenous survival, their 20th-century fight for fishing rights and self-governance…. The film looks to highlight the cosmological story concerning self-sacrifice, generosity, love and gratitude enjoining us to care for salmon-human relations and inviting humans to take the turn to self-sacrifice in order to save the salmon relative.”
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Kicking the Clouds "This film is a reflection on descendants and ancestors, guided by a 50 year old audio recording of my grandmother learning the Pechanga language from her mother. After being given this tape by my mother, I interviewed her and asked about it, and recorded her ruminations on their lives and her own. The footage is of our chosen home in Whatcom County, Washington, where my family still lives, far from our homelands in Southern California, yet a home nonetheless."
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Memory Exercises Trailer Between 1954 and 1989, Paraguay suffered one of the longest dictatorships in latin America: it lasted 35 years. Agustín Goiburú, the most important political opponent to the Stroessner regime, disappeared in 1976 in Paraná, Argentina, where he was exiled. 35 years later, Rogelio, Rolando and Jazmin, his three children, come back to the place of exile… A come back to their memory. This is how we begin an intimate memory exercise, telling the story of a whole country for the past decades.
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TRAVIS An experimental film matching shifting colors with audio taken from an NPR radio interview with a mother who lost her son in the Iraq War.
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Eyes of a Survivor An experimental intake of Ojore Nuru Lutalo as he recounts his experience in political isolation, and the flourishing comradery he built with prison abolitionist, Bonnie Kerness, whose work supported him and other prisoners.
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Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Cauleen Smith On Wednesday, September 13, 2023, the Smithsonian American Art Museum hosted an artist talk with interdisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith. Smith explores African American identity through her work, particularly in films such as “Sojourner,” featured in SAAM’s exhibition “Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies.” She describes her work as a reflection on “the everyday possibilities of the imagination,” drawing on poetry, Afrofuturism, science fiction, and tactics of experimental film to conjure alternative narratives and what the artist has called “a cornucopia of future histories.”
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IKWE An experimental film that weaves the intimate thoughts of one woman (Ikwé) with the teachings of her grandmother, the Moon, creating a surreal narrative experience that communicates the power of thought and personal reflection
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So Foul a Sky Movie Poster Poster for the experimental documentary 'So Foul a Sky' directed by Alvaro F. Pulpeiro.
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Both Instrument and Sound Movie Poster Poster for the film Both Instrument and Sky directed by Sharlene Bamboat.
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Introduction to the End of an Argument Jayce Salloum, a Lebanese/Canadian artist, and Elia Suleiman, a Palestinian filmmaker living in New York, have taken on our accumulated (mis)impressions of the Palestinian Intifada by tracing their genesis in film and television. This highly kinetic tableaux of uprooted sights and sounds works most earnestly to expose the racial biases concealed in familiar images. Relying on valuable snippets from feature films such as EXODOUS, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, BLACK SUNDAY, LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL, and network news shows, the filmmakers have constructed an oddly wry narrative, mimicking the history of Mid East politics. This film is in the main a mashup of clips from various American news programs and Middle Eastern themed Hollywood films, intermixed with camera footage from Palestine and excerpts from interviews, including an interview with Dr Haider Abdel Shafi.
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Carolina Caycedo Video Portfolio A pdf with information on the different video and film works of artist and filmmaker Carolina Caycedo.
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Jonas Mekas - Always Beginning Filmmaker Jonas Mekas describes his practice.
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A FIDAI FILM trailer | BFI London Film Festival 2024 Composed of archival fragments, A Fidai Film reconstructs the visual memory of Palestine, reclaiming images that were plundered from the Palestine Research Centre in Beirut in 1982.
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Life in Film : Beatriz Santiago Múnoz Filmmaker and artist Beatriz Santiago Múnoz discusses the films and media that have inspired her own filmmaking practice.