The Experimenting Angel

The Timely Demise of Mr. Apocalypse

May 2023 •English

Mr. Apocalypse has plans to make money off the memory-related virus presently sweeping the Earth, but tensions with his cremates begin to get in his way.

TAKBO

May 2019 •English

‘TAKBO’ is a short experimental film that studies the realities by which young Filipino women live.

Prelude

Invalid date •English

Every beginning becomes an end of yours, and mine, and us and this world. Because every ending has something to do with beginnings. Today, everyone and everything is more cruel, more hungry and more violent. We're becoming more foreign to each other. Becoming more distant to each other and running away at full speed. And you, what about you? Are you going to keep drifting away in your gray and helpless life? Or are you going to remember who you are and start listening to your own feelings and mind?

Sangria

March 1972 •Portuguese

Natural History

April 1989 •English

The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a television documentary about Malaysian rites of passage.

Pancoran

June 2017 •English

Motorcycles and cars are lost in the sound of traffic and disappear in bands sliced into film footage of Jakarta’s roads. The horizontal and vertical lines or checkerboard patterns emphasizing the density and chaos of the crowded roads were made by optically printing 16mm film.

Üks Uks

December 2003 •Japanese

Doors in our life. Each has a melody, like a music box. They have stories, like a book. They will be opened one by one.

4.48 Psychosis

September 2023 •Portuguese

An adaptation of the play "4.48 Psychosis" written by Sarah Kane. The movie consists of scenes that work as a fragmenteded voyage through the mind of a person on a deeply depressive state. Everything is shown in a raw and experimental manner to bring the feelings and emotions in the most pure form to screen.

Shapes and Gestures

March 1977 •English

Begins as a whimsical piece with 'sheets' of lines running down the screen, progressing into more and more complex geometic patterns but without deviating from the basic precepts of 'dot and line' animation. Jazz piano on a lazy Sunday afternoon, and a spring color palette. -- Stephanie Sapienza. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.

Five Minutes Ago

October 2008 •English

A young man pretends to sleep while he watches his lover go through her morning routine.

Englouties

September 2020 •French

In the heart of Saint-Malo, there's a gigantic area, covering 1/3 of the city, off-limits to the public. It's a part of the commercial port that's mainly accessible via an architecturally unusual footbridge that limits access. An inaccessible place that will be the first to disappear beneath the waves in a few years' time. Only strange sounds reach us from afar: whirring, construction noise, sirens wailing... This parallel world is bustling day and night. But it's in the depths of the night that unfamiliar sounds and lights arouse the most fantasies.

Máquinas de palabras

March 2023 •Spanish

Portrait of a Mexico City neighborhood where pages and pages are printed, and little by little, words appear. Máquinas de Palabras is a performance created in March 2023 in Mexico City, and is the result of a collaboration between Labo K (Rennes-based film laboratory) and LEC (Laboratorio de Cine Experimental) in Mexico City. A portrait of a Mexico City neighborhood where pages and pages are printed. And little by little, words appear... "From the deliberate use of found images to films that make uncompromising use of raw material, the camera and the plants will take our eyes... Pupils will certainly be illuminated by the projector... How can moving images stay in our heads?"

A Dying Tree

February 2025 •

As the day ends for a worn-out office worker, he encounters the mysterious gaze of a chimpanzee, sparking a silent exchange that prompts him to make an irreversible decision.

Schau ins Land

January 1975 •German

Experimental short film by Bastian Clevé (1976).

Nachtwache

April 1975 •German

Experimental short film directed by Bastian Clevé (1976).

Lichtblick

April 1975 •German

Bastian Clevé - 14 mins - 1976

My Magic Flute

January 2025 •

A cinematic experiment inspired by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music.

LIMINAL

December 2021 •Spanish

BEDTIME STORY

June 2023 •French

Playing God

May 2024 •English

In the midst of a prayer, a young woman struggles to keep her faith.