Avant Garde Movies

An artist strives to achieve a state of pure existence. Caught between inertia and movement, her body strains, adapts, and responds to what is...

“The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six...

Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all.

An avant-garde "experimental anthropological poem" from France.

Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren. There was a sudden...

Persian Series #11 begins with a "window" of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternating black-space/white-space...

About the failure. Maybe as a strategy. About the feeling of searching but not finding, and not even knowing what you are looking for. The kitchen as...

A poetic exploration of the presence and absence of a mother.

A man and a woman have a conversation on a bench. The wind blows with a calming serenity. The leaves fall with a graceful respect for the grass....

"I Do Not Know What It Is that I Am Like" juxtaposes images of animals, both wild and domestic, and natural environments with human activity as it...

This film takes its cue from that ultimate situation of Sex/Med/masturbation - the loft-and-lonely hotel room. It is thus easily twice the length and...

"Fears and thrills... Part structure (the centerpoint): part improvisation."

Many white interruptive frames and absolutely straight-edged multi-colored lines amidst "clouds" of color, finally thickened into blobs with lengthy...

From June 2021 to June 2022, Justin "Jastun" Bland records whatever that is in front of him. He presents an abstract montage of collected videos...

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

Filmed in 2003 while staying in a Brooklyn Heights apartment, the work centers on a small Greek statue revealed in shifting morning and afternoon...

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this...

A film about endless processes. Images reappearing. New sentences being written.

A young adult's first-hand account of "accidentally becoming human again" after, and with, trauma induced depression. Lo-fi, vulnerable, and uniquely...