Avant Garde Movies

A compelling narrative told entirely through subtitles, lights, and chairs.

“It’s not my memory of it” is a documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents. A former CIA source recounts his disappearance...

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the...

A young man desperately seeks the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers far more through surreal...

Feature-length documentary examining the growth of the UK Counterculture in the mid-1960s, and Paul McCartney's involvement with this movement, which...

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and...

3-minute experimental animation based on the techniques of John Whitney.

A woman is stalked by a mysterious hooded spectre. An Autumnal homage to and inspired by Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren.

Active elements at play, in toil, and in retreat, seeking peace.

An experiment with three dimensions in a moment of clarity: the focus of the camera's lens towards the present, the speed of the train and the...

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

Experimental short film.

Short experimental film.

Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

In The Jungle, playfully and sorrowfully tells the tale of an unreliable narrator in a self imposed exile. Given a grant to study the equivalent of...

Caspar Stracke replicates Jill Godmilow's replica of Harun Faroci's film "Inextinguishable Fire."

Filmed in a decaying housing estate in east London, "Rhythm 06" renders the outer trappings of internal collapse, a choreography of layers of the...

This audio-visual tone poem uses the language of filmmaking to offer a first-hand evocation of the turbulent psychological effects one can experience...

An urban ballet performed by street children.

For years I've been looking for the means to capture everyday life just as it is perceived through a glance from the street. Twenty years ago, you...