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Experimental short films

Shorts that break the rules of how a film should look and move. Cinema as an open question.

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Where the rules break, and the short is the right place to break them

Experimental film is where the short form stops apologising. A feature has to bring an audience along; a short can simply do the thing and trust you to follow or not. That freedom is the genre's whole reason for being. Structure dissolves, logic bends, and the films become arguments about what a film can even be.

The collection here leans into that licence. The Corridor traps a man battling his mental health inside an endless corridor. Perspective splits one story across two timelines until perception starts distorting the truth, and These Matterless Things explores the emotional complexity of love through ordinary moments rendered poetic. Topical Cream watches a fake-woke millennial fall in love with a talking bottle, Wesley Loses His Penis is exactly and unrepentantly what it says, and The Core of Monkos Anthology piles up the dark, the stupid and the surreal into one anthology.

This is the most fearless corner of the library. Wander in and see how far a short film will go.