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Originally posted on Experimental Film & Music Video Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WLuyuu0Wdc SAMFAELINI: BUSBY BERKELEY’S DREAM ABERRATIONS, 2min., UK, Experimental/Music Video  Directed by Ramon Blanquer Explores different phobias in the form of early Hollywood’s extravaganzza, where rejection and attraction for mystery will dance in harmony unveiling a coordinated series of familiar shapes performing the abstract. CLICK HERE – and…

Originally posted on Experimental Film & Music Video Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OODnJ78_Ip4 SAINT ETIENNE – MAGPIE EYES, 3min., Music Video Directed by Tash Tung Magpie Eyes reimagines the 90s band as teenagers in the modern day and follows them around the sleepy market suburb of Stevenage, UK – the first of the government’s post-war Utopias. The film celebrates…

Originally posted on Experimental Film & Music Video Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NARSD3CDno NIGHT LIVE, 7min., China, Experimental/New Media  Directed by Dazhi Huang A young gay man starts an online livestream with someone he just met on the gay social app, and of course, it leads to unexpected consequences. CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of…

Originally posted on Experimental Film & Music Video Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW74kaVW-pw JOY! BLUE MOON, 3min., USA, Animation/Music  Directed by John Vollmer Music and images intertwine for a joyful experience. CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!

Originally posted on Experimental Film & Music Video Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9ajms4ydyo EPINEPHRINE, 6min., USA, Experimental/Music Video Directed by Kat Scott A millennial girl influenced by internet age is absorbed in queer beauty, but experiences a visceral response to addiction. After crumbling, she is liberated by various social movements as a source of independence. CLICK HERE – and see…

Originally posted on Experimental Film & Music Video Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOqoCDdFA84 CALO MESA – TECHNO HIPPIE, 3min., USA, Experimental/Music Video  Directed by Jon Meyer Music video using nothing but old school video feedback manipulation with two dancers. CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!

Originally posted on Experimental Film & Music Video Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcBus5XZaao BLACK BIRD, 4min., USA, Experimental/Fantasy  Directed by Haonan Wang The journey of a man escaping the concrete jungle of the modern city with help from spiritual black birds. CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!

Originally posted on Experimental Film & Music Video Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5CJeUBVg7o ALL FALLS DOWN, 6min., USA, Experimental/Documentary Directed by Oberon Strong ALL FALLS DOWN presents a digital hell-loop centering around the idea of the transgender antagonist coming to terms with the ideas of home, anxiety, intimacy, our inevitable death, longing, and the conversation between obsolete and current…

Originally posted on Experimental Film & Music Video Festival:
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: BEST FILM: ALL FALLS DOWN BEST PERFORMANCES: EPINEPHRINE BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: THE NIGHT SKY BEST MUSIC: VOICES Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos: JOY! BLUE MOON, 3min., USA, Animation/Music WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND, 6min., USA, Experimental/Music Video NIGHT LIVE, 7min., China, Experimental/New Media VOICES,…

Originally posted on Under 5 minute & Smartphone festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QXhJX5zR8 CITY OF MY HEART, 4min., Greece, Documentary  Directed by Kostas Petsas A personal glimpse into Madrid, an experimental urban cityscape, an ode to life through a dance. CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film! ?