Experimental

Total: 64 mins 18 secs

Whether it’s avant-garde, radical, offbeat, inventive or simply eccentric this block of experimental films aim to shake you from your typical world view and into a new normal.

Please note that many of our ‘Experimental’ films also play daily in our ‘Culture in Motion’ programmes within the KUDOS gallery. 
Online Programme Venue Programme
Thursday 12th October Available for 48 hrs from 3:00pm
Wednesday 4th October 11:00am - Light Cinema Screen 3 Friday 6th October 4:20pm - KUDOS Cinema

Lake of fire

NEOZOON
Germany, 2022
11:02 mins
The fear of death can only be conquered if people believe in a powerful savior - otherwise eternal damnation in hell is waiting. This documentary film collage shows that the dualistic view and way of life of those believers additionally fuels the climate change-related „hell on earth“ in a dange...

Hello Big Weird

Ben Young
United Kingdom, 2022
3:04 mins
A playful meditation on the strange, unpredictable, and ongoing existential remix of UFO discourse: an exploration of the cognitive dissonance that can occur when a once-ridiculed subculture edges into respectability.

Pattern

Tom Wakeling
United Kingdom, 2022
2:03 mins
A dreamscape exploring what you can lose when lost to repetition. A thought that endlessly repeats, that spirals out of control until there’s nothing of you left.

steinrunnin (petrified)

Anton Kaldal Ágústsson (Tonik Ensemble),
Chris Paul Daniels
Iceland, 2022
10:31 mins
A lyrical exploration of collective and cultural eruptions in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Westmann islands' volcanic outburst. Steinrunnin maps the personal to broader connotations of cultural and ecological histories.

The Lost Conversation

Chenmo Wu
United Kingdom, 2022
2:59 mins
Two AI monitors are having a conversation about "urban memory" and "eternity", while their systems are refreshed every three minutes.

Royal College of Art

Shapes We Make: We Rest

Charli Siobhan Whatley
United Kingdom, 2023
5:34 mins
From a trilogy of short films exploring invisible illness. The films are titled, We Rest, We Rise, We Fall - symbolic of the cycle writer/director Charli Siobhan Whatley experiences with both Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Depression.

A Nap In Fluoroscopy Buses

Lei Lei
China, 2022
6:45 mins
A fluoroscopy bus carries the crowd from the centre to the edge of the city. In the fixed and crowded carriage, some people just boarding the bus collide with each other, and some people are taking a nap at the seat.

China Academy of Art

Our Pain

Shunsaku Hayashi
Japan, 2022
16:07 mins
Our common pain, although experienced individually and uniquely, is what connects us. It is the ambiguity and variety of our existence that allows us to imagine an infinity of variables, some of these alternatives may be malignant, and some benign.

Sad Turtle Club

Brendan Void
United Kingdom, 2023
2:57 mins
Them poor turts...

Parabolic Euphoria

Clara Emery
United States, 2022
3:16 mins
Parabolic Euphoria is a visual response by Clara Emery to a sound piece by experimental noise artist Chia-Chun Xu.