2198 Ghosts In The Sun, People In The Sea – Yvette Granata
2198 GHOSTS IN THE SUN, PEOPLE IN THE SEA; Yvette Granata; TRT: 3.20 Split-screen and vertical motion, and a series of 2,198 photographs taken in my deceased grandparents home in Abruzzo, Italy. 2198 GHOSTS IN THE SUN, PEOPLE IN THE SEA is a reorganization of day and night. Displayed in split-screen and vertical motion, the […]
A Pattern Language – Tara Nelson
A PATTERN LANGUAGE; (2010); Tara Merenda Nelson; 16mm; TRT: 3.00 Charles Zehnde’s Kugel Gips house in Wellfleet Massachusetts, and the Romanian B Minor scale. What was the inspiration for this film? In 2010, I was invited by filmmaker Ericka Beckman to participate in a residency through the Cape Cod Modern House Trust. I lived in […]
And This Forest Will be a Desert – Carolyn Radlo & Alanna Simone
AND THIS FOREST WILL BE A DESERT; C&A Projects (Carolyn Radlo & Alanna Simone); music by Wardruna; TRT: 2.33 Glittering plastic, toy polar bear and the beauty inherent in the things we’re conditioned to be afraid of. An art film about the state of the world: it’s all about plastics, panic and paradise. A translucent landscape, a sparkling […]
Assumptions of Your Phantom(sy) – Karissa Hahn
ASSUMPTIONS OF YOUR PHANTOM(SY); Karissa Hahn; Super8; TRT: 1:53 The glorious nature of a phantom-like entity, in the midst of vulnerability. How do your films come about? My work is quite often derived from a text, or it manifests as some reaction to an event – usually concerning desire. All of my work has been […]
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Once upon a time… Experimental Short Films are provocative, exciting, spontaneous, and sometimes forbidden, but unfortunately, they’re somewhat unknown. So we’ve opened the doors of the AXW/online streaming web site, culled from works screened in the ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL…
Bell & Howell – Ana Rodríguez León
Bell & HOWELL; Ana Rodríguez León; 8mm & Super 8; TRT: 8.56 A trip from the past to the future via the camera. What was your creative process? In 2010, I was part of the team of the Super 8 festival Toma Única, a kind of tourné-monté cinema festival. It was decided to make a […]
Black Rectangle – Rhayne Vermette
BLACK RECTANGLE; (2013); Rhayne Vermette; 16mm; TRT: 1.30 Inspired by the slow death of Kasimir Malevich’s painting, Black Square, this film documents a tedious process of dismantling and reassembling 16 mm found footage. The film collage imitates functions of a curtain, while the recorded optical track describes the film’s subsequent destruction during its first projection. […]
Ceallaigh At Kilmainham – Kelly Gallagher
CEALLAIGH AT KILMAINHAM; (2013); Kelly Gallagher; TRT: 7.00 Found family footage collaged and handcrafted: An exploration of land, roots, radical history, and the strength of the women who came before me. Q: What was your creative process with this film? (Ceallaigh at Kilmainham) I took a trip to Ireland a few years ago and learned […]
Constellation – Muriel Montini
CONSTELLATION; Muriel Montini; TRT: 5.00 A bear in the zoo. A bear out of the world. Muriel Montini studied cinema. She lives and works in Paris. Since 2000, she has made several movies screened in different international important institutions and festivals. She currently works on different films projects.
Damn You Vougue – Júlia Portella & Melina Schleder
DAMN YOU VOUGUE; Júlia Portella & Melina Schleder; TRT: 11.10 The desire to fit in and the way that desire can consume you. Was this a film school project? No, it’s a movie we did sometime after we graduated and that we decided to do with no money How did this film come about? This […]
Displacement – Liliana Resnick
DISPLACEMENT; (2012); Liliana Resnick; Super 8mm and 35mm to Digi; TRT: 7.20 Time is not linear. A woman’s past, present and future spiral within simultaneously. DISPLACEMENT references “time”— can you comment on the chosen images in this piece? DISPLACEMENT explores a state of feelings of a woman who suddenly realizes that her present is a […]
Dispossessed – Julia Jin
DISPOSSESSED; (2013) Julia Jin; B/W and color 16mm; sound from HDV Vixia camcorder; 76mm and 26mm lens – TRT: 7.46 A journey reconciling the notions of the home and its paraphernalia as a private space through close textures and a subtle orchestra of sounds. What was your creative process with this film? I didn’t have […]
Even Gray Feels Blue – Negin Sharifzadeh
EVEN GRAY FEELS BLUE; Negin Sharifzadeh; TRT: 8.18 Individual memory: Collective memory – not separated, rather there is an interaction of the two. The echoes of the individual move into collective realities. Sorrow becomes social malaise. Tell us about “Shabaneh,” the poem you used by Ahmad Shamlou. Ahmad Shamlou was one of the most important […]
Fonction Panorama Lgku990 – Caroline Bernard
FONCTION PANORAMA LGKU990; (2010); Caroline Bernard; Digi; TRT: 5.48 The timeline of life and feelings trapped in time and space. A kind of timeline, the timeline of life, of feelings, feelings trapped in time and space, and it’s also a metaphor of tired feeling in a love relationship. A loving duet between the cameraman, and […]
Forbidden Fruit – Cinzia Sarto
FORBIDDEN FRUIT; Cinzia Sarto; miniDV; TRT: 4.44 An original sin encounter of lovers, from initial collision, to orbiting round each other. I realized much later that the origin of this video was an image from “Yol”, a Turkish film directed by Yilmaz Guney that I saw in 1982. In the film a man is forced […]
Gowanus Haze – Margaret Rorison
GOWANUS HAZE; (2012); Margaret Rorison; 16MM; TRT: 5:41 The Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn New York, associated with grime and desolation, combines with my voice and excerpts of stories from my demented grandfather. Why did you want to make this film? Out of nostalgia! Greenwood Heights was the last neighborhood that I lived in before I […]
Gyre-ation – Beth Portnoy
GYRE-ATION; (2012); Beth Portnoy; Digi; TRT: 6.48 Gyre-ation is a visual exploration of resistance to and acceptance of the forces outside of ourselves. “Gyre” is a circular or spiral form found in nature: rotating ocean currents; wind curl; concentric circles formed by leaves or flower petals. Gyre-ation is a visual exploration of resistance to and […]
Hull – Tara Merenda Nelson
HULL; (2013); Tara Merenda Nelson; TRT: 7.22 A journey between layers of corporal consciousness, exploring the physical memory of trauma, and the psychological repercussions of a surgical disaster. Your reason for creating this work: At the age of 34 I had surgery that resulted in the unexpected loss of my uterus. Since the surgery, the […]
Iceland – Fabienne Gautier
ICELAND; Fabienne Gautier; TRT: 4.19 Landscapes of starkness speak to the internal mind. Iceland’s landscape seemed to reflect a particular internalization of feeling. The piece was shot in B&W super 8 while driving across Iceland in 2004. This work speaks to this internal mind. Q: How did this film come about? I had wanted to make […]
In Recovery – Alex Hovet
IN RECOVERY; (2013) Alex Hovet; Super 8; TRT: 2.55 In Recovery challenges my father’s memory with my own. This film is constructed from scanned prints of family photographs which I subjected to a randomized glitching process using a program called GoldMosh. The photographs become warped and are degraded as their code is broken down, creating […]
Inversion – Linda Fenstermaker
INVERSION; (2102) Linda Fenstermaker; 16mm; TRT: 13.01 Blending perspectives layered around the camera, this film creates an open space to expand female consciousness, as an embodiment of the film itself. What was your creative process with this film? Inversion descends from my desire to push the bounds placed upon female representation. I wanted to explore […]
Korona – Lena Ditte Nissen
KORONA; (2013); Lena Ditte Nissen; TRT: 10.20 Mist ascends from the moor and curls up like figures out of the soil. Statement about this work: Ambience reaches from the words that are spoken ever so feebly, while shedding successive layers of tremor, and construe a world of sensuous experience. Overwhelming, cast out from the realm of […]
Landslag – Kyja K-Nelson
LANDSLAG; Kyja K-Nelson; mini DV; TRT: 4.00 The gesture of natural forces that physically and metaphysically shape the Skagafjordur region of Iceland. How did you make this movie, where was it shot? Landslag was shot during the summer of 2004, primarily on the northern coast of Iceland in the region of Skagafjordur, from where my […]
Light Streaming – Kathleen Rugh
LIGHT STREAMING; (2012); Kathleen Rugh; 16MM; TRT: 6.19 In landscapes where tunnels of light and the continual flow of water act as a connecting force, a couple of answers to questions. How did this film come about? The film was shot over a couple of years in numerous locations. I shot on the Oregon coast, […]
Lost In a Glass of Water – Cinzia Sarto
LOST IN A GLASS OF WATER; Cinzia Sarto; digi; TRT: 2.06 A disjointed view in need of a compass. An attempt to walk holding a magnifying lens – an instrument to clean the eye while offering the most precious and simple of all gifts. The irony of the title mirrors the elusiveness of losing oneself. […]
Make Me A Doorway – Alexzenia Davis & Jesse Russell Brooks
MAKE ME A DOORWAY; (2012); Jesse Russell Brooks & Alexzenia Davis; TRT: 3.36 Three poems and their attitude: Make Me, My Silhouette, and A Lady’s Psyche written by Alexzenia Davis. Can you summarize briefly what “Make Me A Doorway” is about? Three visually distinctive women consider lost love during a rush of mixed media footage, […]
Memorais – Ana Rodríguez León
MEMORAIS; (2012); Ana Rodríguez León; TRT: 7.01 Moments before than the Earth explodes, a woman remembers her relationship with a man. Moments before than the Earth explodes, a woman remembers her relationship with a man at the beginning of the 21st century. But soon, the border between what really happen and what could had happen, […]
Missing Green – Joey Huertas Aka Jane Public
MISSING GREEN; (2011); Joey Huertas aka Jane Public; Pixelvision & 16mm color negative; TRT: 9.39 Searching for a ghost. Erin Green, a college student, who has gone missing on account of her own clinical depression I was inspired to make ‘MISSING GREEN’ by a challenge I had made to myself: making a different type of […]
On the Road – Naz Shahrokh
ON THE ROAD (be fekret hastam); Naz Shahrokh; digi, TRT: 6:40 The work is a conversation with Jack Kerouac and his novel On the Road; with the energy of the Beat Generation and the philosophy inherent with that period of Zen Buddhism, of living in the now, while walking through the journey of life. Its […]
One Mississippi – Rebecca Louise Tiernan
ONE MISSISSIPPI; (2009) Rebecca Louise Tiernan; Music: I Will be Done by Amigo Male Singers D.O.P: Ben Jones; 16MM ; TRT: 5:05 A psycho-narrative of four girls playing skipping rhymes in a barren field with a lonesome Scarecrow. I shot this movie when about 5 years ago in Cornwall, England. I was in art school […]
Paradise – Noe Kidder
PARADISE; (2011) Noe Kidder; 16MM; Music: Chris Becker; TRT: 10.00 Filmed in Lisbon, Kauai and Catskill New York: challenging the viewer, as well as my own experience of loss. I made Paradise as a personal response to my father’s death. Creatively, it was a ritual act of mourning, but also a way to pay tribute […]
Pen Up the Pigs – Kelly Gallagher
PEN UP THE PIGS; (2014); Kelly Gallagher; TRT: 12.00 This animated film draws explicit parallels between slavery and modern day institutionalized racism and mass incarceration. Histories of radical resistance against white supremacy are explored and celebrated. Through cut-out animation, the natural world and human world confront each other through kinetic and violent motion, frame by […]
Presenting Shows 5 & 6
Shows 5 and 6, “Animal’s Planet” and “Psychedelic States,” have been released for personal use, streaming into your computer, tablet, television, or home entertainment center.
Push / Pull / Recover – Terra Long
PUSH / PULL / RECOVER; (2013); Terra Long; TRT: 3.39 A meditation on motion through stillness with breath. Shot in single frames on 16mm and hand painted. Made at a process cinema workshop in Cuba, Push/Pull/Recover is a meditation on motion through stillness with breath. Shot in single frames on 16mm and hand painted. Push / […]
Q & A with FILMMAKER Elizabeth Henry (USA) – May 13 2015 – FROM the ROAD – WATCH FREE VIDEO
From the Road – Question and Answer session with Filmmaker Elizabeth Henry at the AXW Film Festival on May 13, 2015
Q & A with Filmmaker Natasha Maidoff – GESTURE- March 27 2019 – WATCH FREE VIDEO
Q&A with Filmmaker Natasha Maidoff – March 27 2019
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Fragments From the Garden of Dreams — Answer session with Filmmaker Sasha Waters Freyer at the AXW Film Festival 9/30/2015
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Mother’s Day – Question and Answer session with Filmmaker Su Friederich at the AXW Film Festival on August 26, 2015
Q & A with FILMMAKERS Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Kera MacKensie & Rebecca Krasnik – June 19 2018 – IMAGINING MINUTES – WATCH FREE VIDEO
Imagining Minutes – At the live screening on June 19, 2018 with visiting FILMMAKERS Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Kera MacKensie and Rebecca Krasnik, with curator Lili White. AXW screening — JUNE 19 2018 with Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Kera MacKensie & Rebecca Krasnik from AXW/online Film Festival on Vimeo.
Q & A with FILMMAKERS Ann Oren and Yun Chen – April 18 2018 – TRAVELING THE SPACE WAYS – WATCH FREE VIDEO
Traveling the Space Ways – At the live screening on April 18, 2018 with visiting FILMMAKERS Ann Oren and Yun Chen, with curator Lili White. Q & A – AXW APRIL18, 2018 – Ann Oren & Yun Chen from AXW/online Film Festival on Vimeo.
Q & A with FILMMAKERS Carolin Koss (FINLAND) and Sara Bonaventura (ITALY) – May 9 2017 – WORLD of NATURE – WATCH FREE VIDEO
World of Nature – Question & Answer with Visiting Filmmakers Carolin Koss (Finland) and Sara Bonaventura (Italy) at the AXW Festival on May 9, 2017
Q & A with FILMMAKERS Lana Z. Caplan and Rebekkah Heidenberg – February 28 2018 – LIVING REALITY – WATCH FREE VIDEO
Living Reality – At the live screening on February 28, 2018 with visiting FILMMAKERS Lana Z. Caplan, Rebekkah Heidenberg, & curator Lili White.
Q & A with Filmmakers M.M. Serra & Emily Packer – ENTITLED – April 17 2019 – WATCH FREE VIDEO
Q&A with Filmmakers M.M. Serra & Emily Packer – ENTITLED – April 17 2019 & Emily Packer’s Interactive Film Presentation
Q & A with Filmmakers Morrison Gong & Giselle Chien – COMMUNITY – July 17, 2019 – WATCH FREE VIDEO
Q&A with Filmmakers Morrison Gong & Giselle Chien – COMMUNITY – July 17, 2019
Q & A with Filmmakers Muyassar Kurdi & Sarah Bliss – PORTRAITS Show – October 25 2018 – WATCH FREE VIDEO
Q&A with Filmmakers Muyassar Kurdi & Sarah Bliss – October 25 2018 Here are SARAH BLISS’ full remarks: In common usage, a transit is a journey. It is also the vehicle or the system that makes a journey possible. In astronomy, a transit is the passage of a lesser body across the sun. In engineering, […]
Q & A with FILMMAKERS Rebekkah Palov (USA) and Cinzia Sarto (ITALY) – TALKING to GOD – October 5 2016 – WATCH FREE VIDEO
Talking to God – At the live screening on October 5, 2016 with visiting FILMMAKERS Cinzia Sarto (ITALY), Rebekkah Palov (USA), & curator Lili White. (taped by Margot Niederland)
Reveries – Karissa Hahn
REVERIES; Karissa Hahn; SUPER 8; TRT: 3.38 Aristotle’s belief: … the organs, not just the eye, retains the image … these sensations are retained and return to haunt the sleep … Bodies are vessels that take in images – Can we not see ghosts because our eye lags perception and we miss it? Are ghosts […]
Rose Selavee – Coleen Fitzgibbon
ROSE SELAVEE; Coleen Fitzgibbon; TRT: 5.00 A rose is a rose is a rose in saturated color. The experimental film Rose is a meditation on Shiva in the aniconic garden surrounded by animals. The garden reflected in 1080HD. You’ve seen a lot of changes in the experimental film world, what do you think is important […]
She Learns To Lunge – Katya Yakubov
SHE LEARNS TO LUNGE; (2009); Katya Yakubov; TRT: 8.30 How many shapes do the terrors of the mind take? Several transformations lead to an awakening between a modern house and a dark forest. What as your creative process with this film? Over several months, there was a slow accumulation of seemingly-disparate, time-based images, playing on […]
Snake-Foot – Lili White
SNAKE FOOT; Lili White; TRT: 5.18 One day, I discovered an “s” on my toenail… One day, in real-life, I found an “S” had appeared on my toe. I “performed” in Nature as a meditation on this event, remembering that the Egyptians have a sign that combines a snake and foot, which I don’t know the […]
The Borough – Kelly Oliver
THE BOROUGH; (2009); Kelly Oliver; Digi; TRT: 1.32 There are a lot of ugly things in this world. I wish I could protect you from them. There is a line in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird in which the character Atticus Finch says to his son, “There’s a lot of ugly things in this […]
The Broken News Series: Disaster – Lori Felker
THE BROKEN NEWS SERIES: DISASTER (2012); Lori Felker; TRT: 5.00 This comes from an experiment/performance: an intimate attempt at reporting, mediating and being mediated. Your method seems to have a lot of humor to it, this is unusual in experimental films, how did this come about? I like to call these videos “TV-shaped”. I’ve done […]
The Kitchen Sink – Lili White
THE KITCHEN SINK; (2010); Lili White; digi; TRT: 11.24 Bombarding you with information about the Earth and our food, that straddles the physical and metaphysical stratum, presenting implications that stretch between humor and horrific reality. What was your creative process with this film? I wanted to bombard the viewer with information about the Earth and […]
The Story of the Octopus with a Heartshaped Head – Alessandra Cianelli
THE STORY OF THE OCTOPUS WITH A HEARTSHAPED HEAD; Alessandra Cianelli; TRT: 11.40 Once upon a time there was a heart beating, that threw itself into the sea… Through broad visionary material, The Story of the Octopus with a Heart-Shaped Head is actually a fairy tale, showing an existentialist experience carrying an autobiographical character and […]
THREE New Shows for 2017!
We’ve just added THREE New Shows! There are now 100 Experimental Films, culled from the ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL, always viewable on AXW/online for personal use, streaming into your computer, tablet, television, or home entertainment center.
Toxic Park – Cinzia Sarto & Emita Frigato
TOXIC PARK; (2012); Cinzia Sarto & Emita Frigato; Digi; TRT: 11.22 Trapped in the Amusement Park, a child’s perceptions waver between illusion and reality. A young girl stares at the transformation of her own reflection into a robotic Avatar until she finally disappears. There seems to be a lot of social concerns in your works […]
Tricks are for Kiddo – Rhayne Vermette
TRICKS ARE FOR KIDDO; Rhayne Vermette; 16mm; TRT: 2.22 In 2010, Winnipeg director, Guy Maddin exclaims: It’s impossible to collage a film! Tell us about the source material used in Tricks Are For Kiddo, and about your creative process with it. The source material came from the found footage readily available at the Winnipeg Film […]
Tudor Village: A One Shot Deal – Rhayne Vermette
TUDOR VILLAGE: A ONE SHOT DEAL; (2012); Rhayne Vermette; 16mm; TRT: 5:15 In pursuit of an eclipse, the citizens of Winnipeg flee the city. Meanwhile, stranded in Tudor Village, the caretaker does his best to interrupt their trajectory & entice everyone to return. Did you use found footage for this film? This film is a […]
Una Sporca Vacanza (Dirty Vacation) – Cinzia Sarto
UNA SPORCA VACANZA (DIRTY VACATION); (2010); Cinzia Sarto; digi; TRT: 7.00 Inside a labyrinth of cement cubes, debris by the sea, humans distracted by the rituals of vacation seem indifferent to the world surrounding them. A veiled woman is searches for a way out. This was my first video experiment were in the same frame […]
Upbeat Nothingness – Leila Jarman
UPBEAT NOTHINGNESS; Leila Jarman; TRT: 3.14 In Berlin, five people “stuck” and restricted by routine, breakout, upon finding their truest selves thru color and forms of movement. Read more…” status=”progression_closed”] How did this film come about? and what is it about We were interested in studying the human form through movement and dance. The idea was […]
Victoria – Olivia Ciummo
VICTORIA; (2012); Olivia Ciummo; Digi, TRT: 10:21 Three sisters search for a place to rest in different landscapes – versions of utopia are taken away, leaving them with impressions of a war. How did this film come about, and what is it about? Victoria came about as a way to explore cyclical ideas in a […]
Was Being Moved? – Ye Mimi
WAS BEING MOVED?; Ye Mimi; TRT: 11.00 About the state of moving and being moved: When people build a boat to carry themselves; when people start to walk backwards; when gods lead people to step on the Earth… Is it possible that everyone becomes someone else’s “far-afar” in the continuous movement? Can you tell us […]
Working With Nature – This is My Show – Lori Felker
WORKING WITH NATURE – THIS IS MY SHOW; (2011) Lori Felker; Digi; TRT: 14:44 Working with Nature can be grueling and painful, but your hostess Adrienne is ready and willing to walk you through what it takes to perfect and control your surroundings. Your method seems to have a lot of humor to it, this […]
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