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Experimental Film is a 2015 horror novel by Canadian author Gemma Files.

Synopsis
Lois Cairns is a former film professor who lost her job when her branch of the college was closed. She now makes her living as a freelance critic and cares for her young autistic son, who communicates through lines he has seen or heard through film and television. While attending a screening for various experimental films, Lois views one by Wrob Barney, a controversial filmmaker known for using material taken from various other works. She is able to connect the film to Iris Whitcomb, a mysterious woman who created movies during the advent of film. None of Whitcomb's movies were believed to have survived the passage of time due to the difficulty of preserving silver nitrate, but Barney found one of the films and used it for his latest work.