Experimental Films / Cannes International Film Week

Experimental Films / Cannes International Film Week

The Cannes International Film Week is an online streaming film festival meant to showcase innovative world cinema from around the world by up-and-coming artists.

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Experimental Films / Cannes International Film Week
  • Trump Pinochet (United States) by Gerald Habarth

    This short experimental animation reflects tensions and apprehensions around the growing autocratic tendencies in the US and the world at large. It references Donald Trump and Augusto Pinochet, authoritarians who successfully manipulated public perceptions and attitudes to centralize power and we...

  • Becoming (United Kingdom) by Shelley Hopkins

    ‘Becoming’ transports us to an otherworldly realm where an angelic chorus of synth and suggestion underscores an ever- changing landscape that is simultaneously fixed at the micro - the savage and purposeful dance of creation and destruction and the macro - the unimaginably vast and unwittingly b...

  • The journey (United Kingdom) by Mel Steele

    As a non driver journey's seem to flash by sometimes as unlike the driver who has to concentrate I get lost in the scenery as it flashes by me and feel I arrive at the destination without having taken notice of the scenery. Just lines speeding by me.
    Running time: 00:02:30

  • Pico Sacro [The Holy Mountain] (Spain) by Alberto Lobelle

    "Study the Earth and the Stars in the sky; anywhere in the world reflects an image of it. You must keep this arrow for a hundred years and a day. After this time, stick it in the widest valley of all those you possess, with the tip facing the sky. Then the Moon will come and, just as it exerts it...

  • Devotion (Belgium) by Théo Naniot

    The story of a being experiencing the pulsion of life and its evolution towards death. This film is a try to picture through filmic media, a certain sensation I once felt about human relationships and the inherent movement that drives us to exist.
    Running time: 00:16:18

  • The Temptation of an Ordinary Thought by Thomas Pappas

    A young man lives between his confinement and the anxiety of the upcoming summer. Extracts from the diary of a soldier during his military service.
    Running time: 00:05:59

  • • (United States) by Derrick Schultz

    Running time: 00:09:00

  • Bloodlines at Sea (France) by David Munoz

    Bloodlines at Sea is an experimental film that unfolds as a sensory journey into the ocean depths. Drawing on underwater imagery, archival material, soundscapes, and poetic fragments, the film explores the invisible traces left by human actions upon marine environments, as well as the forms of ap...

  • Dynamics (Netherlands) by Teo Baehler

    Dynamics (Frozen Movements) is an experimental, dreamy and surreal stop-motion film, created using everyday materials. The film offers a visual reflection on transformations that emerge through the intuitive blending of dissimilar elements. The result is a non-narrative art film where fantasy, fo...

  • Scores for Mother & Daughter (Belgium) by Natalia Sardi

    Two pairs of hands, one belonging to the mother, the other to the child, her daughter. Witnesses and expressions of the passing of time, these hands will come together and dialogue, exploring their relationship and complicity, in movement, through the choreographic transposition of a suite of “mu...

  • Home (Belgium) by Hanne Schillemans, Ralph Timmermans

    Home is a short film about the fragility of life and the virtue of solitude. A faceless figure attempting not to resist the endless waves of pointlessness. Home explores the tension between presence and absence within the strange choreography of existing. The protagonist’s nudity, devoid of eroti...

  • Performance No.19190301 by Mingu Kang

    Teenage boy Seong-hyun sets out on a journey with his grandmother Byeong-hee, who suggests leaving without revealing a destination. However, their car breaks down, preventing them from starting their trip. At that moment, the TV installed in the car broadcasts a mysterious performance titled "Per...

  • Geography (Italy) by luca De Santis

    I am a traveler, and unable to travel to document territories in these years marked by armed conflicts, I have chosen to explore them virtually, using Google Earth imagery to create GEOGRAPHY. Google Earth’s photographic system, composed of 12–15 cameras that shoot simultaneously, produces a 360-...

  • They Are Killing Us... (Canada) by Maurice Cormier

    From A Nightmare Of A Possible Not Too Distant Future....
    Running time: 00:05:11

  • Nonna's Seeds (Canada) by Patricia Marcoccia

    A granddaughter returns to her vacant childhood home, where distant memories and traditions merge into the present, gently whispering: move forward, but don’t forget where you came from.
    Running time: 00:04:00

  • Digits of Pi (United States) by Tom Bessoir, Joshua Pines

    Inspired by Marcel Duchamp's “Anemic Cinema,” I set out to create a film composed within a circular frame. This circular composition led directly to using the number pi for the underlying structure. Having the digits of pi sung on the soundtrack is an homage to “Einstein on the Beach” by Philip G...

  • Beproeven (Belgium) by Karlijn Reynaerts

    A film that plunges viewers into the disorienting world of a person with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). Food, for them, is not sustenance but a trigger for overwhelming anxiety and disgust. The world around them bombards them with distorted textures, smells, and tastes, a sens...

  • Tunnel of luv (United States) by Jeremy Pellington

    An exercise in empathy. Max Azzarello passed away after a public political act of self-harm. Scrolling excerpts of Azzarello’s writings on “The Simpsons” and footage collected from rented Tesla cars document a U.S. landscape that gives rise to conspiratorial thought, an open society at the turn o...

  • Pretty People Picking (Canada) by Connor Kujawinski

    In a black and seemingly empty void between space and time, a stubborn, media-addicted Soul is finally given the opportunity to choose a Host to be born into with the help of Phanes, his guide and "chauffeur" into life.
    Running time: 00:08:10

  • SÔMA (Belgium) by Raphaël Vens

    A body. A fragmented mental space. A scream being prepared, being held back. A cry that shatters. Through five successive states — Invocation, Dissolution, Inner Pain, Nervousness/Tension, Desertion — a man passes through the disintegration of its flesh, the loss of orientation, and the abandonme...

  • Gaslight (Hong Kong) by Bijou Octavia, Chloe Brooke

    In the presence of the gaslighter, the creatures of faery skeletons appear and linger. The seed has been planted, now you spiral - the gaslighter takes control.
    Running time: 00:01:46

  • Roses (United States) by ANDi LAND

    The self-destructive nature of seeking love and validation from external sources.
    Running time: 00:02:38