watch the festival here: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/best-of-experimental-film-festival-nov-2026
These Women, 19min., China
Directed by Wen Zhang
Three women enter a fragmented space where time feels displaced. The film unfolds through their bodies, their nightmares, and their pain. A white box disrupts the fragile balance between them.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-these-women
On Being, 3min., Japan
Directed by Masanobu Hiraoka
In response to Max Cooper’s interview-based album, this music video approaches memory not as a subject, but as a structure.
https://www.instagram.com/masanobuhiraoka/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-on-being
Unending, 4min., USA
Directed by Nino Fernandez
UNENDING, by Suzanne Gallo, Rachel Maxwell, and Nino Fernandez, is an exploration of self-love and acceptance, and an interpretation of how those sentiments evolve over time.
https://www.instagram.com/rjmax11
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-unendng
The Uncolored, 6min., USA
Directed by Huyon Lee
A skilled female assassin sets out to bring color to her dreadfully dull profession, only to discover that her greatest obstacle is her own desire to be special and recognized as an artist.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-uncoloured
Regeneration, 9min., USA
Directed by Kyle Jonah Ruddick
Regeneration is a short dance film that pays homage to the capacity of the human psyche and spirit to metabolize destruction into full bloom. Shot in the ashes of the Santa Monica Mountains in the weeks following the fire, the film captures a dancer amongst the desolate beauty of LA’s scorched terrain as she and it metabolize destruction back into full bloom — ecologically and emotively in parallel. Throughout, the patient eyes of more than 20 trail cameras document the slow return to life: grasses emerging from char, wildflowers erupting to superb loom, and wildlife feeding off a landscape more vibrant than before. Ultimately, it serves to leave its viewers with a message of hope: when held with reverence, and given time, the destructive events that sweep through our lives might just be serving to bring us back to life.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-regeneration
