The Experimental Film List Project

[therewillbeblus]

Siegfried A. Fruhauf's Cave Painting is a fantastic flicker film - which makes me wonder if there's a comprehensive list somewhere of 'flicker films', or if people could recommend their favorites (I know of the main ones that have been recommended, but there have to be more obscure choices too)?

Flicker films are my version of ASMR - I find them incredibly calming, and I'd love to start a ritual of watching a new one after work each day

[therewillbeblus]

I'm currently going through my backlog of Re:Voir DVDs, and wondering if we should go ahead and set a date for submission? Even if there's going to be limited discussion, I'd like to get the opportunity to glance at a master list (and anyone who is willing to's posted lists) simply to get more experimental recommendations out there through title exposure. This project's completion would be cool for expanding the number of experimental films listed on the board, if nothing else. I have no idea where to start for assembling my own list, though

[Red Screamer]

Siegfried A. Fruhauf's Cave Painting is a fantastic flicker film - which makes me wonder if there's a comprehensive list somewhere of 'flicker films', or if people could recommend their favorites (I know of the main ones that have been recommended, but there have to be more obscure choices too)?

Flicker films are my version of ASMR - I find them incredibly calming, and I'd love to start a ritual of watching a new one after work each day

Some favorites off the top of my head not by Conrad/Kubelka/Sharits/Lowder, though I've mentioned some of them before:

Serene Velocity (Gehr)
Gravity (Provost)
Sketch Film #1 (Nishikawa)
Wasteland No. 2: Hardy, Hearty (Mack)
L'eau de la Seine (Hernández) & Souvenirs/Rouen (Hernández) [more in the vein of Breakaway]

And I'll also link to these, mostly because this post reminded me they exist and the filmmaker put them online: ¡PíFIES! (Tamarit) & In Film/On Video (Tamarit)

[therewillbeblus]

Thanks, Red Screamer, these are great! I polished off Jodie Mack's oeuvre a while back (highly recommended), and have seen the Provost too, but not the rest.

I'm not that keen on Peter Tscherkassky's work overall, but The Exquisite Corpus and Outer Space are exceptional sorta-flicker films, and both would probably make my list.

[swo17]

Have you seen his Coming Attractions? That's my favorite

[therewillbeblus]

Yes, that was great too!

[zedz]

I'm currently going through my backlog of Re:Voir DVDs, and wondering if we should go ahead and set a date for submission? Even if there's going to be limited discussion, I'd like to get the opportunity to glance at a master list (and anyone who is willing to's posted lists) simply to get more experimental recommendations out there through title exposure. This project's completion would be cool for expanding the number of experimental films listed on the board, if nothing else. I have no idea where to start for assembling my own list, though

I'd love to do the list, but there's clearly not much interest in it, and I don't see any point in making lists without any attending discussion.

[denti alligator]

I’m still game. Maybe we can get discussion going on a certain period or movement, narrow the focus a little.

[therewillbeblus]

That’s what I’m trying to do

[denti alligator]

The flicker film idea is good. I like your idea of posting a preliminary favorite 10-20 films even better.

[therewillbeblus]

Yeah, ideally doing that could assist in narrowing focus on a few more nanogenres