Our courses invite you to rethink what moving image can be - beyond narrative, beyond rules, beyond the familiar. Through camera experiments, sound exploration, editing techniques, and conceptual development, you’ll learn to create videos that challenge perception and open new artistic possibilities.

Welcome to where filmmaking becomes play, research, discovery, and expression.

Forget the rules of conventional filmmaking. Over four weeks, you'll explore how moving images can be used as material for ideas, emotions, memories and experimentation. Through practical exercises and hands-on making, you'll develop your own approach to experimental video - no previous experience necessary.

Unstable Images is a three-part masterclass series exploring experimental approaches to contemporary moving image art through glitch, scanography, and AI video. the future.

An intensive, hands-on introduction to the fundamentals of experimental video art. Perfect for beginners or anyone curious about making moving image work outside traditional filmmaking.

Introduction to Experimental Moving Images

The Art of Experimental Moving Images

A deeper journey into moving image as an artistic practice. Designed for students who want time to develop a voice, refine their concepts, and build a cohesive body of work.

Summer Video Art
Intensive

A two-week immersive exploration of video art. Designed for anyone who want to experiment with new approaches to filmmaking through sound, editing, animation, documentary, found footage, and conceptual practice.

Darya Lukoshkova

I really enjoyed the course (Introduction to experimental moving images) I didn't expect to enjoy working with video so much.

Anna Kafarova

I'm very pleased with the course, it really connected with my own journey and search for creative themes. I was inspired by the other students and the work we looked at. I'd seen some of them before, but didn't know their backgrounds.

Thank you Dan and Alyona for such an opportunity.

The course was very engaging and I'm glad I was able to participate. Dan is a very pleasant and interesting person and lecturer. It's a shame my English didn't allow me to communicate more, but everything was great regardless. I didn't have any problems; everything was quite intensive but flexible. It's good that we had the opportunity to review the material afterwards.

Anastasia Grigorieva

Our annual exhibition is a highlight of the Tella year, bringing together experimental video works submitted by artists from around the world alongside a selection of work created by our students. It offers a unique opportunity to see emerging voices presented alongside an international community of video artists.

video art & experimental film zine

Download the digital version of our zine here

Sticky Beak is a bi-monthly zine dedicated to video art and experimental film, bringing together artists, writings, and reflections that invite closer looking and deeper engagement with moving image practices.

What if your next video artwork wasn't driven by inspiration... but by the roll of a dice?

We created the Video Art Bash a creative challenge for experimental filmmakers, video artists, media artists, and curious makers.

Download the worksheet, roll the dice, and see where they take you.