Avant Garde Movies

Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera.

Persian Series #6 begins with what appears to be dried red and yellow rose petals, suddenly shot-thru with blue which causes a shift to violets and...

Filmed in Rome in the 1980s, the work draws on Borromini’s Baroque architecture and Il Sassetta’s St. Martin and the Beggar. Beavers...

"A springtime Fantasy," everything comes joyfully together in mirthful mythic warmth as Bird Lad's white line on black background richly sprouts,...

Renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko creates powerful responses to the inequities and horrors of war. This in-depth investigation into the artist...

Han closes a trilogy that began with Ere erera baleibu... (1968) and continued with Impressions en haute atmosphère (1991), which goes from...

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

“One can not speak of time as a thing in itself. It is movements and variations that give the feeling of time. Men have always linked time and...

This film evolves from several years’ observation of the sexual energy which charges the world of business and the qualities of palatial...

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

1 minute, color, silent 16mm

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

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

A journey through a composite galaxy of artificial light.

The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as "pictures", but the images are essentially a wash and tangle of...

A glimpse over the Diguillín River through the mechanical eye of an old digital camera. Light’s trail presents itself fortuitously over...

A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

Former European boxing champion Santiago Rojas has been completely disconnected from the world of boxing for several years. He now works at a small...

Five years in the making, Lawrence Jordan's feature-length "alchemical autobiography" Sophie's Place takes as its inspiration the story of the Greek...

In the hyperkinetic multichannel video installation Devil’s Peak, Simon Liu surveys the psychogeography of Hong Kong as a feverish dreamscape,...