Avant Garde Movies

An afternoon in the woods. Every camera movement a stroke of a brush. An impossible painting. Never completing itself, always starting anew.

A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings.

One of the most iconic sequences in the history of Hollywood cinema (from Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST) is deconstructed and...

A side table and a chest of drawers (played by actors in ingenious soft-sculpture costumes) indulge in a bit of passive-aggressive furniture moving....

From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His...

I spent a day inside a small abandoned military fort by the sea. With the tide went up and down, I appeared and disappeared into the water.

Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes

Though best known for his collage films, Lawrence Jordan here makes exquisite study of the different aspects of light lilting through the early...

An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances...

A young man goes through his everyday routine until he realizes that he is completely alone.

The debut short film from Edward Pettitt, that blends surrealist imagery with the sounds from The Residents.

Poetic and romantic amateur footage of a young couple in a garden, as well as their travels — several spliced films with different plots were...

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

The 360° project tells the story of a peaceful environment featuring a rare case phenomena where a swarm of butterflies is nurturing itself by...

An argument unfolds in the midst of everything else that has ever happened.

The twilight and half-closed vision of the blinding bursts barely reveals fleeting and luminous unexpected phosphorescences, through and through the...

Tugging Diary documents a footbridge over a year between August 2019 to January 2021. Due to social unrest and the uncertainty of various immediate...

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

A visual daydream of a late afternoon swim in the waters of a summer in Sicily.

Picture Perfect Pyramid is a 16mm film which in counter-clockwise spirals, circles a large pyramid structure that was built on the outskirts of...