Avant Garde Movies

Filmed in London, sent to Paris. For Helga Fanderl. "Dear Helga, today I have recieved a postcard from Chile. Shaking folds and tearing invisible...

The subject grapples with the losses and changes in their life as they're forced by flickering lights to reconcile with their past.

Filmed in Zürich. For Robert Beavers. Talking about the illuminated and the un-illuminated.

Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes.

Images that take the viewer to the sea, before dark.

A kinetic prayer and structuralist intervention. Shot entirely on an iPhone 11 in a desolate Midwest laundromat, 108 spin documents the mechanics of...

A series of individual portraits of friends and family, all interrelated in what might be called a branch growing directly from the trunk of SONGS 1...

Man and the Dog (2022) is a British neo avant-garde short film that plays around with the concept of speed. The pace is being constantly increased,...

This film is a succession of visual and aural "notes" generated by the patterns in animals' hides, which are arranged and re-edited into a complex...

Strips of previously unexposed film went into the ocean and these fragments are what returned. In this final installment of a nine year project...

A journey through a composite galaxy of artificial light.

These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

An outcast girl makes an interesting conversation with a peculiar boy.

"Shiloh Cinquemani works wonders simply by framing flowers in “Narcissi” and “Rose.” Her delirious flux of glances...

Using the unstability of digital to pursue the unstability of film.

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of news and entertainment altered all preceding media...

A regular grocery store watermelon seeks a higher ranking in the hierarchy of the universe.

Filmed in Quintay, sent to Santiago. For Claudia Muñoz. "In the rocks by the sea there is a woman watching the sun set. We read, we talk"....

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.