10 Bizarre Experimental Films You Won't Believe Actually Exist

9. Wavelength

Wavelength is the film school version of security camera footage. It was created in 1966 by Michael Snow, and is often heralded as one of the greatest experimental films of all time. The premise is this: a room is filmed for twenty-four hours, and we get to see the condensed version of what transpires. That is to say, we watch forty-five minutes of a mostly empty room. There's not a tremendous amount of what you might call action -- sometimes people wander into the room, sometimes they leave. In fact, the only driving force in the film is a slow, steady zoom that occurs throughout the entire piece, until the camera ends up in a close up of a postcard that is hanging on the wall. You could go to virtually any industrial site, take a look at their security tapes, and you would get pretty much the same amount of fulfillment out of it -- only no one is going to be sitting around trying to convince you that it is art.