Avant Garde Movies

Rummaging for Pasts is an experimental juxtaposition of two cinematic documents: the video diary of an international archaeological excavation and a...

A film adaptation of George Berkeley's 1747 tract of the same name, which consists of an intricate, lengthy proof that gradually comes to connect the...

An experimental video collage piece that investigates the concept of self-destruction across genres, eras, and cultures. Features footage from Abbas...

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

Short film made with underexposed video footage.

16mm film by Radoslav Vladić.

trees and other things...

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

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...

Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

Slow disintegration and aging of artists head, revealing underlying bone structure. Created using old picture-phone technology. New music added in...

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...

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

The painter Alfredo Romero locks himself in his studio-apartment in the Estación de Francia neighborhood in Mollet del Vallès...

I and other person, we exercise the daily movements by moving each other's body.

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.

Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

Produced using a VHS VCR and a digital camcorder, Vide-Uhhh! is an experimental piece, showcasing the VCR recording itself as Jesse England takes it...

A 3 minute Shortfilm playing with the expressionistic themes of the German Poem “D-Zug” by Gottfried Benn.