Independent animators have produced innovative, often experimental, shorts since the silent era.

The Biberach Independent Film Festival focusses on experimental shorts and documentaries.

Packard spent his teens and twenties working on experimental shorts while supporting himself variously as a movie theater usher, security specialist and wrist-watch salesman.

The festival showcases independent narrative, animated, documentary and experimental shorts or features.

The practice further encouraged previously anonymous music video directors to view themselves as small-time auteurs and their videos as experimental shorts.

Over the next ten years, Kötting directed a number of experimental shorts, often produced via the London Film-Makers Co-op.

Maddin drew early inspiration from the films of John Paizs, as well as experimental shorts by Stephen Snyder.

He was also known for his experimental shorts "226-1690," "Cadmium Yellow," "Elephants" and "Quarry."

His first films made in the early 1960s were mostly experimental shorts with grotesque and absurdist influences.

The 2006 season saw Future Shorts and Future Cinema arrive at the Festival with experimental shorts and film installations.