Avant Garde Movies

  • 2017
    Scar

    Scar

    Scar

    02017HD

    A girl who was floating freely in the water accidentally gets her skin cut by a sailboat passing by. The story is derived from personal experience,...

    Scar
  • 1976
    Head

    Head

    Head

    01976HD

    Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand...

    Head
  • 1982
    Ghost Sonata

    Ghost Sonata

    Ghost Sonata

    01982HD

    Video project dubbed "an Opera without Words" made by the experimental, avant-garde band Tuxedomoon.

    Ghost Sonata
  • 2009
    The Pursuit of What Was

    The Pursuit of What Was

    The Pursuit of What Was

    72009HD

    How do those within the memories show themselves to us?

    The Pursuit of What Was
  • 2020
    at her heels a stone

    at her heels a stone

    at her heels a stone

    02020HD

    An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

    at her heels a stone
  • 1969
    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

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    "This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I...

    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte
  • 1969
    Mouths and Masks

    Mouths and Masks

    Mouths and Masks

    01969HD

    "In this experimental film from 1969 the seeds are seen of my exploration of the mouth motif, which reached its full expression in the...

    Mouths and Masks
  • 2003
    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    02003HD

    An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected...

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8
  • 1999
    Imported

    Imported

    Imported

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    Imported (1999) is about three methods of ridding collard and kale greens of a pesky insect.

    Imported
  • 2017
    The Visitors

    The Visitors

    The Visitors

    02017HD

    A stop-motion animation compiled of postcards, photographs and video shot on the Spanish island of Mallorca. This unique island has a long and...

    The Visitors
  • 2018
    Sneyd Green

    Sneyd Green

    Sneyd Green

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    It’s any day, any year in the house of Alan and Vera Ellis in their Post-Industrial English conurbation formerly known for their world renown...

    Sneyd Green
  • 2018
    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff

    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff

    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff

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    The wife lost her sense of time in the loops of life, becoming the gears of social machinery. The husband is a writer who has the spirit of...

    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff
  • 1978
    Shrinking of the Sun

    Shrinking of the Sun

    Shrinking of the Sun

    01978HD

    An experimental short.

    Shrinking of the Sun
  • 2017
    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

    02017HD

    Filmed in August of 2015 at The Stone in New York City, Kayo Dot performed their debut album Choirs Of The Eye in its entirety for a group of fewer...

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone
  • 2009
    Dahlia

    Dahlia

    Dahlia

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    This work is one film of the omnibus ‘Seeing’. About ‘Seeing’: “Filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of experimental...

    Dahlia
  • 1975
    Drawers

    Drawers

    Drawers

    01975HD

    An early video curio pitched between performance art and George Méliès’ trick films, Drawers sees Colab artist Andrea Callard...

    Drawers
  • 1980
    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

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    This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent...

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde
  • 2011
    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

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    16mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide,...

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film
  • 1964
    Sabath

    Sabath

    Sabath

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    Short experimental 16mm film.

    Sabath
  • 1997
    Distorted

    Distorted "Tele" Vision

    Distorted "Tele" Vision

    71997HD

    “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...

    Distorted