Avant Garde Movies

An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

An avant-garde film presented as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. From MoMA's catalog: "For the monumental installation Play Dead;...

A photogram, used previously only within art photography, is adapted to create abstract moving patterns.

A short film directed by the Argentine filmmaker Ernesto Baca

A girl who was floating freely in the water accidentally gets her skin cut by a sailboat passing by. The story is derived from personal experience,...

An experimental non-linear horror film portraying several surreal scenes of grotesque and violent acts

Experimental short film of colors and lights

Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

In this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede and make an independent Island from the Mainland....

Three lives caught in limbo between dreams, reality, and oblivion.

Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a...

Witnessing my daughters passage though childhood with a 35mm Russian movie camera.

Audiovisual material gathered by filmmaker Fox Maxy over a decade, including documentary footage, television clips, and animation—sometimes...

Images of the Church of the Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudí confronted with brief flashes of housing projects and industrial areas. The...

This piece represents a kind of autobiographical vision. I use myself to create all the figures, sometimes employing masks from the Noh theater to...

Spanning an entire day from morning to night, this film interpolates the difference between dreaming and dreams.

Ivan Ladislav hides a true chamber of wonders behind the clear, mathematically abstract structure of his films and videos, meticulously compiled...

In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are...

An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.