every expression artistic without apparent meaning

Made of Air

A dream lament for a drowned world. Filmed in London, Zurich, San Francisco, Berkeley and Napa. Music by Grouper.

2014

La cité des neuf portes

Filmmaker and teacher, Stéphane Marti has been researching experimental cinema as an art form liberated of aesthetic codes and the economics of big bu

1977

Pacific 231

An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the sta

1949

Touch Air

An homage to the influential practice and philosophy of artist Nasreen Mohamedi. The film incorporates Mohamedi’s personal notes and her unique singul

2023

Weeds and Wildflowers

a dance in the field, a refutation of indolence.

2023

Melting

Melting shows the natural monostructural disintegration of a strawberry sundae, its passage from rigidity to softness, from edibility to waste. The sp

1965

Raga

A hand animated film that is a precursor for Belson’s later work

1958

Butterfly

A short experimental film, exploring the concept that one small change can have a profound impact on a person's life.

2023

Dog Years

An animated poem about a dog, her human, and the consequences of a nasty habit.

2023

I Wanna Be a Kid

2019

circles

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

2014

Monks

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

2016

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

1989

Looking Inside

editing experiments with the camera itself. abandoned

2024

In Search of Something Slightly Complicated

The story of an invisible man who travels in search of an idea, told by a questionable narrator.

2023

The Old Master Painter

editing experiments with the oldest piece of footage

2024

Polka Graph

Short film by Mary Ellen Bute

1947

The Baby of Mâcon

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gi

1993

Carabosse

Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like o

1980

Night Flight: Born Again

Documentary tribute to what VH1 called “the single greatest rock omnibus program ever aired” and Brooklyn Vegan named “the most consistently weird and

2016