
All the films in "Experience the Experimental" program are from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative collection and reflect an overview of filmmakers who broke with the taboos and censorship of the mainstream popular culture of The United States. These short experimental films focus on the cinematic body and embrace an alternative perspective on gender and sexuality. The various techniques include found-footage filmmaking to hand-processed film as well as cut out animation.

All the films in "Experience the Experimental" program are from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative collection and reflect an overview of filmmakers who broke with the taboos and censorship of the mainstream popular culture of The United States. These short experimental films focus on the cinematic body and embrace an alternative perspective on gender and sexuality. The various techniques include found-footage filmmaking to hand-processed film as well as cut out animation.
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7.9A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
1.0Film archivist and former director of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Jenni Olson created this fast-paced and often funny, campy 75-minute film comprised entirely of spliced together movie trailers. Some of the segments have themes such as a breezy look back at John Travolta's career that includes trailers from such films as Saturday Night Fever, Staying Alive, Grease, Perfect, and Moment by Moment. Other trailers include Mae West in Sextette, the disco camper Thank God It's Friday, Raquel Welch in Kansas City Bomber, Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew and the rarely seen Chastity, the serious acting debut of Cher.
0.0A young queer girl is entered into an eerie beauty pageant, of unknown stakes, that ultimately turns against her.
5.3Encouraged by his quirky grandfather, a young boy faces his fears at summer camp.
6.4A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
5.7A young baseball player has his dreams of pitching for a Little League travel team derailed by a devastating injury on the field.
4.8A group of campers revolt against their strict camp director and take over the camp for themselves.
5.5On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong saves an old friend from the clutches of "The Lion", an evil super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.
5.3Chaos and rampant hormones reign when teenage counselors are left in charge during their summer-camp director's absence.
0.0Sarah and Lizzie live for their summers at Blackhawk Farm. This summer, Lizzie will be a counselor, while Sarah is a C.I.T.; this creates some tension. Everything changes when Sarah is told a secret that will change Lizzie's life forever.
6.4Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
0.0Thea is aroused by the genital decay! Juna is happy to let his genitals rot! Everything was done in order to marry the satan!
5.1A group of friends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
5.5Everyone has 'moved on', except for Sherman and Jim Levenstein's still understanding father. Little Matt Stiffler wants to join his older brother Steve's business and, after everything Matt has heard from Jim's band-geek wife, he plans to go back to band camp and make a video of his own.
4.7Camp Kill is a place far away from the day to day life of the big city. Come on out for a stay and enjoy the nice fresh air, old cabins, and the sound of birds flying above. And by the way, a killer also stalks Camp Kill. So watch your back too. This may be the last vacation you will ever have.
7.8After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
5.3A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.
6.1A low-budget film crew working in New York City find themselves being preyed upon by a sexually conflicted serial killer.
7.0Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow. Originally screened with "Odorama" scratch and sniff cards so the audience could (at their own risk) smell along with the film.
1.0A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol. Four mechanics eye her off and, as one of them walks towards her car, a full-blown erotic fantasy develops.