Experimental

Based on the poem “The Pleasure of Sunday” by László Nagy.Through everyday scenes, with an abundance of close-ups, like a kaleidoscope of undeniable beauty-both plastic and chromatic-it opens up new, experimental pathways of expression.

A kaleidoscopic journey through Budapest over the course of a single Sunday, where ordinary moments—work, family gatherings, public parks, bars, and nightlife—become fragments of a larger portrait of everyday life. Eschewing traditional storytelling, András Jeles transforms the city’s routines into an experimental visual poem.Read More »

“Michael Smith is a big baby. Well, not all the time. But when he gets into his droopy diapers and lacy bonnet, adds sunglasses and a pacifier, and totters around on his stumpy legs as Baby Ikki, he’s as riveting to watch as any real toddler, albeit larger, hairier and a bit scary. Mr. Smith, the multitalented performer, video maker and multimedia artist, has been doing this character for about 30 years, and it never gets old.Read More »

“BLIND COUNTRY is a collaboration between myself and filmmaker Ericka Beckman. It was inspired by the H.G. Wells short story The Country of the Blind, which was a favorite of mine as an adolescent. I was both fascinated and repulsed by this tale of a man having to give up his eyes to live in an alien sightless society. In rereading it as an adult I was struck by the obvious fact, which I was oblivious to as a boy, that it is a castration story, and by the thinly veiled sexual and racial fears within it. Blind Country bears no discernable reference to the Wells story but instead plays with these subtle underlying themes.” – Mike KelleyRead More »

Dream Island Girl is a visual poem about the loss of humanity in the age of material civilization. The plot is an illusion. Like in a dream, the emotional narrative tells the story.Read More »

The archive consists of the following experimental short films:

Souvenir (1967, 10′)
Film (1967, 15′)
Ferreri (1967, 13′)
Vietnam (1967, 3′)
Fotografo (1967, 2′)Read More »

“For months we experimented and represented ourselves, starting with simple walks in search of material for a thesis. How can we visually recreate a memory? We walked and filmed, photographed and painted, got to know each other and told our stories. An experience transformed into a story that speaks of a shared journey, made up of filming, changes of season, conversations about the moon, and exchanges of techniques.Read More »

A sect composed by young reclusive women and commanded by an authoritarian robot, investigate misterious forces that lead them progressively towards a state beyond time.Read More »

Inspired by Jose Rizal’s third, unfinished novel, discovered in 1987. A Spanish priest (Khavn) and a Filipino poet (John Lloyd Cruz) vie for the affections of an American woman (Lilith Strangenberg) who is going mad. Shot on expired film stock, which was then hand painted and scratched by the director, Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge is made to feel like an unearthed relic; some newly discovered silent film from an experimental filmmaker from a century past.Read More »

Set in Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum in Joshua Tree, California, artist Cauleen Smith reimagines this unique space as a radical feminist utopia. Among the scattered assemblages, a group of women whose dynamic, colourful outfits radiate with energy, gather to re-stage an iconic photograph of men taken by Billy May for Life Magazine in 1966. While paying homage to the feminist abolitionist Sojourner Truth, the title refers to the spiritual journey these women embark upon.
— IFFRRead More »